# Old Mr. Averill — The Starvel Hollow Tragedy character guide

> Old Mr. Averill in The Starvel Hollow Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Averill, Mr. Averill, Starvel, old Averill, the late Mr. Averill

**First appearance:** 0002-i-the-tragedy

## Who they are

The elderly patriarch of the Averill family, deceased before the story.

## In the story

### [The Starvel Hollow Tragedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/the-starvel-hollow-tragedy)

The other victim of the Starvel Hollow fire.

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

Allegedly wrote the note and sent the £500 to Whymper via Roper, though he was too ill to meet.

### [X: Whymper Speaks at Last](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_starvel_hollow_tragedy_se/chapters/x-whymper-speaks-at-last)

Believed by French to have been murdered by Roper as part of the crime.

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