# The Powerhouse — Character guide

> Key figures in The Powerhouse by John Buchan.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): A rising barrister and reluctant detective who narrates the affair, matching wits with a criminal artist who hides in plain sight among London's best clubs.
- [Mr. Chapman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/chapman.md): A bluff Labour MP with Yorkshire granite in his voice and a boy's romance in his heart, recruited as the narrator's flatmate and self-appointed bodyguard.
- [Tommy Deloraine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/tommy_deloraine.md): A restless Yorkshire squire and gadfly MP who abandons Westminster for Venezuela on a mysterious errand, leaving his friend Leithen a trail to follow.
- [Charles Pitt-Heron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/charles_pitt_heron.md): A wealthy, sensitive gentleman whose sudden secretive dealings and abrupt flight abroad set the whole machinery of the mystery in motion.
- [Mr. Andrew Lumley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/andrew_lumley.md): A rich Albany bachelor, clubman, and quiet Wedgwood collector whose philanthropic surface conceals a colder and far more dangerous design.
- [Macgillivray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/macgillivray.md): A Scotland Yard man whose name is used as bait in a Bloomsbury trap, drawing the narrator into a locked room and a face from an old burglary case.
- [Mr. Docker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/mr_docker.md): He belongs to the domestic machinery of Charles Pitt-Heron's London life, yet his composure and the odd deference he commands from his supposed master mark him as something more than a hired man. The narrator's instinct 
- [Monsieur Felix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/felix.md): Felix is a rising young man of the Foreign Service, learned, ambitious, and just boyish enough beneath the gold lace to bend protocol for a friend. He and the narrator trade ciphers and confidences over a German atlas, m
- [Mr. Routh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/routh.md): A sorrowful figure connected to the Pitt-Heron affair.
- [Bill Docker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/bill_docker.md): A relative or associate of Mr. Docker, possibly a criminal element.
- [Mr. Leithen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/leithen.md): A friend or colleague of the narrator, possibly a lawyer or advisor.
- [Pavia Lumley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/pavia_lumley.md): A member of the Lumley family, possibly a relative of Andrew.
- [Mr. Tuke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/tuke.md): A character encountered during the investigation, possibly a suspect.
- [Mr. Julius Pavia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/julius_pavia.md): A mysterious figure with connections to the Lumley network.
- [Stagg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/stagg.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or informant.
- [Ethel Pitt-Heron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_powerhouse_se/characters/ethel_pitt_heron.md): A relative of Charles Pitt-Heron, possibly his sister or daughter.

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