# The Seven Dials Mystery — Character guide

> Key figures in The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie.

- [Bundle Brent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/bundle_brent.md): Bundle moves through Chimneys and London with the ease of a daughter of the house, which lets her overhear, pry, and push where police cannot. When Jimmy Thesiger urges her and Loraine to stay clear of the Seven Dials bu
- [Jimmy Thesiger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/jimmy_thesiger.md): Jimmy arrives in the affair as a friend of the dead man and quickly becomes the group's strategist, deflecting Loraine's fears with jokes while nursing a wounded arm and a private plan. He warns the women to keep out of 
- [Loraine Wade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/loraine_wade.md): Loraine is the small, alight-faced girl who opened her brother's letter by mistake and can still recall its list of names and dates. When Jimmy tries to shield her from the Seven Dials danger, she refuses flatly, invokin
- [Superintendent Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/superintendent_battle.md): Battle reconstructs the shooting at Chimneys with patient, unglamorous precision, reading footprints, bullets, and the dent where a thrown pistol struck the lawn. He listens to Bundle's account of her adventures with a f
- [Lord Caterham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/lord_caterham.md): Lord Caterham's instinct on hearing George Lomax has arrived is to claim gout, or death, and stay in bed. He chats amiably about his daughter's golf and her restlessness while George delivers solemn speeches about her br
- [Lady Coote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/lady_coote.md): Lady Coote sits in the garden working a weeping figure over an urn and warns Jimmy, with relish, about blood poisoning and lost arms. She remembers the white striped paper and the inglenook of the house she chose when Si
- [Sir Oswald Coote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/sir_oswald_coote.md): A bulky, dominating industrialist whose crisp efficiency and convenient discoveries on the lawn make him the most useful man in the room — and the most suspicious.
- [George Lomax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/george_lomax.md): A pompous Foreign Office Under Secretary known as 'Codders,' who quotes his own speeches and collects promising young men for his house parties.
- [Gerald Wade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/gerald_wade.md): The amiable young Foreign Office idler whose death by chloral — after eight alarm clocks — turns a country-house prank into something far darker.
- [Bill Eversleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/bill_eversleigh.md): Lomax's good-natured right-hand man, hopelessly smitten with Loraine Wade and hopelessly out of his depth in everything else.
- [Ronny Devereux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/ronny_devereux.md): A charming, well-connected young man whose death at a shooting party is quietly arranged to look like a local lad's stray rifle.
- [Alfred](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/alfred.md): A scared servant at Chimneys who knows more than he lets on.
- [Rupert Bateman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/rupert_bateman.md): Efficient secretary to Sir Oswald Coote.
- [Terence O'Rourke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/terence_orourke.md): An Irish journalist and adventurer involved in the intrigue.
- [Tredwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/tredwell.md): The butler at Chimneys, a reliable source of information.
- [Mr. Mosgorovsky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/mr_mosgorovsky.md): A sinister foreigner with ties to the criminal underworld.
- [Countess Anna Radzky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/countess_anna_radzky.md): A glamorous foreign countess with a mysterious past.
- [Lady Caterham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/lady_caterham.md): Lord Caterham's wife, a minor presence in the household.
- [Mrs. Coker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/mrs_coker.md): A local woman who provides information to the investigators.
- [Babe St. Maur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/babe_st_maur.md): A fashionable young woman in the social circle.
- [Doctor Cassell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_seven_dials_mystery_se/characters/doctor_cassell.md): The local doctor who examines the body.

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