# Frances Ives-Pope — The Roman Hat Mystery character guide

> Frances Ives-Pope in The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Ives-Pope, Frances, Ives-Pope

**First appearance:** 0005-part-one-i-in-which-are-introduced-a-theatre-audience-and-a-corpse

## Snapshot

A millionaire's daughter whose purse turned up in a dead man's pocket, caught between her aristocratic family and the actors she loves.

## Who they are

Frances is the heiress whose name drags the Ives-Popes into the Roman Theatre scandal, and whose romance with the actor Stephen Barry scandalizes her mother's icy drawing room. She faints under questioning, leaving her brother and fiancé to plead her innocence while her own purse sits as the case's most damning object. Her predicament forces the Queens to work inside a world of old money and new greasepaint, where every alibi is tangled in class.

## In the story

### [Lexicon of Persons Connected with the Investigation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_roman_hat_mystery_se/chapters/lexicon-of-persons-connected-with-the-investigation)

Enter the society interest.

### [Explanation for the Map of the Roman Theatre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_roman_hat_mystery_se/chapters/explanation-for-the-map-of-the-roman-theatre)

Her seat is labeled on the map.

### [In Which the Queens Invade Society](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_roman_hat_mystery_se/chapters/part-two-xii-in-which-the-queens-invade-society)

The young woman whose evening bag was found in Monte Field's pocket; prepares to tell her story to the Inspector.

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