# The Secret of Chimneys — Character guide

> Key figures in The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie.

- [Anthony Cade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/anthony_cade.md): Anthony Cade charms his way through life with easy humor and a talent for cajoling irritable travelers, but his friend Jimmy McGrath knows the truth: trouble finds him wherever he goes. Broke and restless, he takes on a 
- [Virginia Revel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/virginia_revel.md): Virginia Revel moves through diplomatic circles with a reputation for discretion that is, by her own amused admission, entirely undeserved. Having lived in Herzoslovakia just before the assassination of its king and quee
- [Superintendent Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/superintendent_battle.md): Superintendent Battle arrives at Chimneys to find a locked room, a dead man, and a household full of secrets that powerful men would prefer stayed buried. He is patient, methodical, and unbothered by the pressure from Wh
- [Lord Caterham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/lord_caterham.md): Lord Caterham is a small, shabbily dressed, melancholy man who finds politics tedious and politicians worse. His brother made Chimneys a stage for history; he would prefer to let it be a private country house and slip ab
- [George Lomax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/george_lomax.md): George Lomax is a robust man with protuberant eyes and an immense sense of his own importance, the kind of official who grips a lapel and lectures for twenty minutes without pause. He orchestrates the Herzoslovakian oil 
- [Bill Eversleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/bill_eversleigh.md): Bill Eversleigh is the kind of affable young man who knows everyone and is trusted by most, serving as George Lomax's secretary while privately finding his employer as tiresome as everyone else does. He is drawn into the
- [Jimmy McGrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/jimmy_mcgrath.md): McGrath is the old crony who knows Anthony Cade better than anyone in the opening chapters, trading barbs about harems and hard work while the Castle's Select Tour mills around them. He sees through the respectable tour-
- [Bundle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/bundle.md): Bundle moves through Chimneys with the ease of someone who has grown up among its politics and its secrets, unimpressed by visiting officials and openly contemptuous of M. Lemoine's prim beard and eyeglasses. Her loyalty
- [M. Lemoine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/m_lemoine.md): Lemoine arrives at Chimneys to lay out the case against Anthony Cade with unnerving composure, revealing that Mr. Fish is a Pinkerton's man and that the trap has been long in the setting. His cold confidence and personal
- [Mr. Hiram Fish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/hiram_fish.md): Fish circulates through Chimneys as a slightly comic enthusiast for bygone curiosities, which is precisely the disguise that lets him watch without being watched. The revelation that he is a professional detective recast
- [Herman Isaacstein](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/herman_isaacstein.md): Isaacstein receives Anthony in a sumptuous inner sanctum, weighing the proposition of a pro-British claimant against the murder of Prince Michael with the same cool calculation he brings to any deal. He prides himself on
- [Count Stylptitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/count_stylptitch.md): A deceased former ruler of Herzoslovakia whose memoirs are sought.
- [King Victor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/king_victor.md): King Victor exists in the novel first as reputation: the man who always comes out on top, the reason Lemoine's face darkens and the reason Chimneys has been watched for so long. His anticipated arrival transforms a count
- [Boris Anchoukoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/boris_anchoukoff.md): A loyal servant of the Herzoslovakian royal family.
- [Prince Michael Obolovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/prince_michael_obolovitch.md): The murdered heir to the Herzoslovakian throne.
- [Tredwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/tredwell.md): The dignified butler at Chimneys.
- [Baron Lolopretjzyl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/baron_lolopretjzyl.md): A comical and verbose Herzoslovakian nobleman.
- [Giuseppe Manelli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/giuseppe_manelli.md): An Italian waiter with a connection to the crime.
- [Élise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/elise.md): Virginia Revel's French maid.
- [Mademoiselle Brun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/mademoiselle_brun.md): A French governess at Chimneys with a secret.
- [Prince Nicholas Obolovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/prince_nicholas_obolovitch.md): The younger brother of the murdered Prince Michael.
- [Colonel Melrose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_of_chimneys_se/characters/colonel_melrose.md): The Chief Constable of the county.

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