# Lettice Protheroe — The Murder at the Vicarage character guide

> Lettice Protheroe in The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** dear Lettice, Miss Lettice, Miss Protheroe, Miss Lettice Protheroe

**First appearance:** 0001-the-murder-at-the-vicarage

## Snapshot

Colonel Protheroe's sharp-eyed daughter from his first marriage, whose cool composure and convenient memory make her a quiet puzzle in the village's gossip.

## Who they are

Lettice moves through St. Mary Mead with the easy assurance of a girl who has learned to watch her father's household from the sidelines. Miss Marple calls her 'really a very sharp girl' — and not always scrupulous, a hint that her loyalties and motives are more tangled than her pleasant manner suggests. Her early certainty about how the murder inquiry will unfold gives the case one of its first unsettling ripples.

## In the story

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/vi)

Lettice visits the Vicarage, shows indifference to her father's death, and goes to tell Anne about Lawrence's arrest.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/xiv)

Dennis reports that Lettice is very worried about the murder and has been confiding in him.

### [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/xx)

Criticized Mary's dusting and was found in the study looking for a yellow beret; discussed as attractive and possibly interested in Lawrence Redding.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/xxii)

Drifts into lunch late, later confesses to hiding an earring under Anne's desk out of jealousy, and warns the vicar to send Dennis away.

### [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/xxvi)

Unusually attends the evening service.

### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_murder_at_the_vicarage_se/chapters/xxxii)

Reveals Mrs. Lestrange is her mother and explains her actions to help her stepmother's conviction.

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