# Sergeant Kent — The Starvel Hollow Tragedy character guide

> Sergeant Kent in The Starvel Hollow Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Kent

**First appearance:** 0005-iv-inspector-french-goes-north

## Who they are

A police sergeant assisting Inspector French.

## In the story

### [II: The Inquest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/ii-the-inquest)

Warns Ruth about the inquest, then questions her extensively about the fire and the Ropers.

### [IV: Inspector French Goes North](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/iv-inspector-french-goes-north)

Local sergeant in charge who is to provide French with particulars after dark.

### [VI: Talloires, Lac d’Annecy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/vi-talloires-lac-d-annecy)

Instructed by French to keep a close watch on Whymper's movements.

### [VII: Posthumous Evidence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/vii-posthumous-evidence)

Sends French the safe deposit letter from the postmaster.

### [XII: A Somewhat Gruesome Chapter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/xii-a-somewhat-gruesome-chapter)

Accompanies French and Colonel Followes to the cemetery for the exhumation.

### [The Piece of Yellow Clay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/xiii-the-piece-of-yellow-clay)

French arranges to meet him and a constable at the outhouse the next morning to witness the cache.

### [XIV: The Secret of the Moor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/xiv-the-secret-of-the-moor)

Arrives with a constable at dawn, digs the hole, and identifies the body as Markham Giles.

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