The Red House Mystery · Character
Audrey Stevens
The pretty parlourmaid at the Red House, trimming her hat for Joe Turner while the household's strangest afternoon quietly assembles around her.
supporting
Also known as Audrey, Stevens
First appearance: I: Mrs. Stevens Is Frightened
As a supporting figure in The Red House Mystery, Audrey Stevens is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The pretty parlourmaid who re-trims her hat, discusses Joe Turner, and shows Robert Ablett into the office.
Audrey Stevens works in the housekeeper's room under her aunt Mrs. Stevens, absorbed in small domestic pleasures and the gossip of a brother no one has seen in fifteen years. Her cheerful, unguarded talk with her aunt opens the novel and plants the first unease about Mark Ablett's Australian visitor. She matters because her ordinary vantage point, close to the household but outside its secrets, gives the reader the first thread of the mystery.
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- Other
Character groups
- Secondary characters with secrets
- Primary suspects and investigators
- Protagonist
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- Breaking point
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See Audrey Stevens in I: Mrs. Stevens Is Frightened