# Montague Fallock — The Secret House character guide

> Montague Fallock in The Secret House by Edgar Wallace.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Montague, Fallock, the mysterious Montague Fallock, the missing Fallock

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A vanished blackmailer who threatens murder to protect a family scandal, leaving only a cheap locket and two dead accomplices behind him.

## Who they are

Montague Fallock haunts the investigation as an absence—a missing man whose threats against his own sister and the millionaire Farrington have already turned fatal. The bodies of his agents, an architect and a courier, surface in a square with nothing on them but a silver locket bearing a misspelled patriotic motto. He is the shadow the police chase through the fog, and the reason the Secret House matters at all.

## Relationships

### [T. B. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/characters/t_b_smith)

_professional_

Montague Fallock is a professional contact or witness aiding T. B. Smith's investigation.

### [T. B. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/characters/t_b_smith)

_professional_

Montague Fallock is a professional contact or witness aiding T. B. Smith's investigation.

### [T. B. Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/characters/t_b_smith)

_professional_

Montague Fallock is a professional contact or witness aiding T. B. Smith's investigation.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/ii)

The blackmailer being discussed by the dead men; T. B. Smith believes he may have been in Farrington's house that night.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/iii)

The unseen blackmailer and burglar; steals evidence from T. B.'s office, leaving blood from a cut hand.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/viii)

Identified by Lady Constance as the murderer of George Doughton and the target of her vengeance.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/ix)

Revealed as the blackmailer who threatened Lady Constance and informed George Doughton of her past.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xiv)

Revealed as an alias of Farrington; the blackmail operation is described in detail.

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