# Mr. Candy — The Moonstone character guide

> Mr. Candy in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Unluckily Mr. Candy, little Mr. Candy, Poor Mr. Candy, poor Mr. Candy, Mr. Candy Frizinghall

**First appearance:** 0008-ii

## Snapshot

The Verinders' talkative local doctor, whose professional attentions and unfortunate illness after the birthday dinner leave a lingering mark on the household.

## Who they are

Mr. Candy is the kind of country physician who knows everyone's business and is not shy about sharing his opinions, a fixture at Frizinghall and in the Verinder sickroom. His habit of speaking too freely, and his collapse after the birthday festivities, place him awkwardly close to the night the Moonstone vanishes. His presence gives the early investigation a medical dimension and a reminder that even the well-meaning can become entangled in the mystery.

## Relationships

### [Ezra Jennings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/characters/ezra_jennings)

_professional_

Ezra Jennings works as Mr. Candy's assistant, a relationship marked by Candy's condescension and Jennings' quiet competence.

### [Ezra Jennings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/characters/ezra_jennings)

_professional_

Ezra Jennings works as Mr. Candy's assistant, a relationship marked by Candy's condescension and Jennings' quiet competence.

## In the story

### [The Birthday Dinner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/chapters/x)

Doctor at Frizinghall, makes a social blunder by recommending skeletons to Mrs. Threadgall, unaware her husband is dead.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/chapters/iv)

Mentioned as having previously brought the list himself, now replaced by his assistant Ezra Jennings.

### [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/chapters/ix)

Mr. Candy is referenced as the patient whose lost memory Jennings hopes to reconstruct from his bedside notes.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/chapters/iii)

Played a practical joke on Franklin by preparing a dose of laudanum, entrusted to Godfrey.

### [Seventh Narrative](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moonstone_se/chapters/seventh-narrative)

Writes the letter to Franklin Blake; was present at Jennings's death; describes Jennings's final hours and his own loneliness after the loss.

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