# The Paradise Mystery — Character guide

> Key figures in The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.

- [Mary Bewery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mary_bewery.md): A young Wrychester woman raised by Dr. Ransford, she has no idea her parentage is the buried hinge on which a murder inquiry turns.
- [Dr. Mark Ransford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/dr_mark_ransford.md): Ransford is the respectable country doctor whose house and practice anchor the story's social world, and whose ward Mary Bewery gives him something to protect. When a stranger falls to his death in Paradise, Ransford's c
- [Inspector Mitchington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/inspector_mitchington.md): Mitchington is the official inquiry's steady center, trading information with Bryce while trying to separate Varner's stubborn eyewitness claim from Collishaw's drunken hints. He is neither fool nor genius, but a working
- [John Brake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/john_brake.md): Brake is the absent center of the mystery: a convicted embezzler, a secret husband and father, and a man Glassdale knew for years without ever hearing of his family. His silence about Mary Bewery and young Ransford's war
- [Barthorpe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/barthorpe.md): Mr. Gilwaters, the former vicar of Braden Medworth, is the quiet archive of the story's deepest past: he married Mary Bewery to John Brake, watched Ransford stand as best man, and later visited Brake in a prison cell aft
- [Mr. Folliot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_folliot.md): Folliot is the benevolent-looking gentleman among his rose trees who has posted a reward for anything touching the Wrychester death, and who receives Glassdale with dry, unhurried questions. His habit of peering over his
- [Dick Bewery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/dick_bewery.md): Dick is the youngest member of Dr. Ransford's household, a schoolboy who trades in the talk of Wrychester's town boys and reports it across the dining table with a side-glance at his sister Mary. His eagerness to be usef
- [Mrs. Folliot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mrs_folliot.md): Wife of Mr. Folliot, a presence in the household.
- [Collishaw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/collishaw.md): Collishaw belongs to the shadowy margin of the case, a man whose silence was worth money to Wraye, or Folliot, and whose sudden death turns a bribe into something far darker. Flood's account of the fifty pounds, and of h
- [Mr. John Braden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_john_braden.md): Braden is a man with money, a changed name, and a deliberate avoidance of Barthorpe, where unpleasant memories and a missing fortune still wait. He engages Harker to hunt down Falkiner Wraye, pays him twenty-five pounds 
- [Mr. Jettison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_jettison.md): Jettison is the professional patience in the investigation, a man who settles into the Second Friendly Society's inner office, accepts the best chair, and asks about fifty pounds deposited just before a murder. He trades
- [Sackville Bonham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/sackville_bonham.md): A young man involved in the subplot.
- [Falkiner Wraye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/falkiner_wraye.md): A person of interest connected to the Folliots.
- [Mr. Gilwaters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_gilwaters.md): A minor character mentioned in the narrative.
- [Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/flood.md): A character with limited but notable presence.
- [Miss Bewery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/miss_bewery.md): Another member of the Bewery family.
- [Richard Jenkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/richard_jenkins.md): A person mentioned in the course of the investigation.
- [Mr. Alexander Chilstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_alexander_chilstone.md): A gentleman who appears in the story.
- [Ambrose Campany](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/ambrose_campany.md): A character with a minor role in events.
- [Mr. Stebbing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mr_stebbing.md): A minor character mentioned in the narrative.
- [Fladgate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/fladgate.md): A man referred to in the investigation.
- [Duke of Saxonsteade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/duke_of_saxonsteade.md): A nobleman referenced in the plot.

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