# Count Boris Flavio — The Midnight Guest character guide

> Count Boris Flavio in The Midnight Guest by Fred M. White.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Flavio, Boris Flavio, Count Flavio, Count

**First appearance:** 0044-xlv-count-flavio-s-diary

## Snapshot

A brilliant, wealthy Florentine nobleman whose doomed marriage into a feuding family set in motion secrets that still haunt the living.

## Who they are

Count Boris Flavio was a man of European reputation — artist, sculptor, sportsman, and conversationalist — whose charm bound Ravenspur to him in an extraordinary promise. Against all expectation he married Carlotta Descarti, heir to a centuries-old feud between their families, and soon found himself trapped in a marriage marked by fear and violence. His urgent secret plea to Ravenspur, and the mysterious death that followed, form the buried foundation on which the present mystery rests.

## In the story

### [XVII: Looking Backwards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_midnight_guest_se/chapters/xvii-looking-backwards)

Mentioned as the elder son of Count Flavio, poisoned by his wife Carlotta.

### [A Woman's Heart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_midnight_guest_se/chapters/xlvi-a-woman-s-heart)

Described as an enigma with a vein of madness; he committed suicide after receiving a warning from the Descarti family, and planned the scene to frame his wife.

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