# The Secret Adversary — Character guide

> Key figures in The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie.

- [Tommy Beresford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/tommy_beresford.md): Fresh out of the army and short on cash, Tommy is the steadier half of the accidental partnership Young Adventurers, Ltd., the one who recognizes faces and keeps his head while hiding behind curtains at a clandestine mee
- [Tuppence Cowley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/tuppence_cowley.md): A vicar's daughter with no patience for the dull life waiting for her, Tuppence talks her way into an interview with a shifty businessman and walks out with the scent of a mystery. She is the one who answers the advertis
- [Jane Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/jane_finn.md): Jane Finn is the question everyone is asking and no one can answer: a girl who boarded a ship in 1915 carrying a secret treaty and then simply disappeared. Intelligence men, American millionaires, and criminals all want 
- [Julius P. Hersheimmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/julius_hersheimmer.md): Square-jawed, impatient, and refreshingly free of English circumspection, Julius arrives in London with oil money, a guilty conscience, and a missing cousin he has never laid eyes on. He mistakes Tommy and Tuppence for b
- [Sir James Peel Edgerton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/sir_james_peel_edgerton.md): Sir James Peel Edgerton is the man Mr. Carter suspects is already hunting Mr. Brown without telling anyone, a barrister whose legal instincts are too strong to let him show his hand. He rings Tommy, offers him work, and 
- [Mrs. Vandemeyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/mrs_vandemeyer.md): Tuppence's employer is a woman of means and mystery, the kind who keeps a latchkey and returns late, and whose connections run somewhere far darker than society allows. Sir James believes he can make her talk with a few 
- [Mr. Carter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/mr_carter.md): Mr. Carter moves through Whitehall with the tired manner of a man who has seen too many secrets go wrong, yet he still believes in luck and in curious young people. When Tommy recognizes him from Intelligence work in Fra
- [Mr. Whittington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/mr_whittington.md): Whittington presents himself as a man of affairs, the kind who can afford a good suit and a quiet room, and he approaches Tuppence with an offer that seems almost designed for her. But his questions are too pointed, his 
- [Albert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/albert.md): Albert is the kind of boy who says 'Yes, sir' and means it, whether he is packing a bag for Holyhead or unpacking it again five minutes later. He is not clever in the drawing-room sense, but he is loyal, quick on the sta
- [Boris Ivanovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/boris_ivanovitch.md): Boris Ivanovitch is a man who gives orders and then panics when they are not obeyed, especially by Rita Vandemeyer, whose independence he cannot stomach. He fears Peel Edgerton's criminological instinct, fears exposure, 
- [Kramenin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/kramenin.md): Kramenin receives visitors in a suite at Claridge's, dictates to a secretary, and measures men by their fortunes, but when Julius Hersheimmer produces a revolver his composure collapses entirely. He has seen Mr. Brown, s
- [Dr. Hall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/dr_hall.md): Doctor who treats a key character.
- [Danvers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/danvers.md): Government official involved in the secret mission.
- [Conrad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/conrad.md): Servant at the house in Soho.
- [Janet Vandemeyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/janet_vandemeyer.md): Maid who becomes a key witness.
- [Mr. Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_adversary_se/characters/mr_brown.md): No one in the gang can describe Mr. Brown, and that is precisely his power: he is a rumor that has learned to give orders, a password Tommy chances upon and survives by repeating. Kramenin has seen him in a crowd and can

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