# The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder — Character guide

> Key figures in The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace.

- [Mr. J. G. Reeder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/j_g_reeder.md): Reeder works quietly for the Director of Public Prosecutions, sidling into rooms and letting people underestimate him while he remembers everything. He is drawn to sensible people and unremarkable streets, and he treats 
- [Art Lomer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/art_lomer.md): Lomer runs a profitable operation out of Buffalo and has brought his troupe to London at the tail end of the season, which is exactly the sort of timing Reeder notices. He is cool under pressure until a stranger in the s
- [Bertie Claude Staffen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/bertie_claude_staffen.md): Bertie is the son of a manufacturer rich enough to buy cotton mills as a sideline and stingy enough to take the bus. His fishlike vacancy makes him the ideal mark for Art Lomer's troupe, and his father's money makes him 
- [Miss Margaret Belman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/margaret_belman.md): Miss Belman is the kind of woman Reeder likes precisely because she is sensible rather than merely pretty, and their shared journeys home turn into animated debates about the Prince of Wales and the cost of living. Throu
- [Mo Liski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/mo_liski.md): Liski receives Reeder with the composure of a man who has rehearsed his answers, dismissing an anonymous letter about Paris jewel sales as a cock-and-bull story. He is careful about times and weather, and Reeder's gentle
- [Lew Kohl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/lew_kohl.md): Kohl belongs to the shadow world Reeder maps through private files and old police records, the men whose watches turn up in the wrong pockets years later. He is the sort of adversary who justifies Reeder's habit of worki
- [Mr. Sidney Telfer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/sidney_telfer.md): Sidney Telfer heads a grand City firm he never earned, drifting into his Threadneedle Street office only when the mood suits and sniffing at a cambric handkerchief while his underwriting turns reckless. Painfully thin, w
- [Sir James Tithermite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/sir_james_tithermite.md): A gentleman involved in the story's events.
- [Stan Bride](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/stan_bride.md): A person of interest in Reeder's detective work.
- [Miss Magda Grayne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mind_of_mr_j_g_reeder_se/characters/miss_magda_grayne.md): A woman involved in Reeder's investigations.

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