# The Teeth of the Tiger — Character guide

> Key figures in The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc.

- [Don Luis Perenna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/don_luis_perenna.md): Perenna moves through Parisian high society and police investigations alike, offering his brilliant deductions while a fortune in the Mornington inheritance hangs in the balance. He is a man of action and mystery, whose 
- [Florence Levasseur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/florence_levasseur.md): She exists in a space between victim and suspect, her composure under Perenna's intense scrutiny suggesting hidden knowledge and conflicting loyalties. Perenna is drawn to her even as he suspects her of being the accompl
- [Sergeant Mazeroux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/sergeant_mazeroux.md): As a man of the law, Mazeroux is bound by procedure and his duty to the Prefect, yet he is also Perenna's trusted assistant, caught between two worlds. His solid, often clumsy, presence provides a grounding contrast to P
- [M. Desmalions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/m_desmalions.md): He operates at the highest level of the French justice system, responsible for the investigation into the Mornington murders and the safety of Paris. Though he respects Perenna's intellect, he is wary of his methods and 
- [Gaston Sauverand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/gaston_sauverand.md): He is the object of a frantic manhunt, a man whose flight with Florence Levasseur convinces Perenna of his guilt and his role as a rival for her affections. Sauverand is a ghost haunting the investigation, a name that in
- [Arsène Lupin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/arsene_lupin.md): Lupin is a specter from the past, a master of disguise and theft whose supposed death is as mysterious as his life. The public and the police see his hand in every brilliant deduction and audacious move made by Perenna, 
- [Marie Fauville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/marie_fauville.md): Marie Fauville is the widow at the center of a scandal that consumes Paris: her husband Hippolyte is dead, and the letters he left behind seem designed to destroy her. She is caught between grief, suspicion, and the damn
- [Deputy Chief Weber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/deputy_chief_weber.md): Deputy Chief Weber is the official investigator whose warrant for Don Luis Perenna reflects his conviction that the amateur detective is orchestrating the Mornington murders for profit. He embodies the institutional susp
- [Hippolyte Fauville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/hippolyte_fauville.md): Hippolyte Fauville was an electrical engineer whose death opens the novel, but his presence lingers through letters he wrote before dying—letters that paint him as a 'hater' determined to ruin his wife Marie and the cous
- [Inspector Vérot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/inspector_verot.md): Police inspector killed early in the investigation.
- [Valenglay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/valenglay.md): Political figure involved in the case.
- [Cosmo Mornington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/cosmo_mornington.md): Deceased millionaire whose will triggers events.
- [Jean Vernocq](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/jean_vernocq.md): Suspicious character involved in criminal activities.
- [Señor Caceres](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/senor_caceres.md): Spanish gentleman with a role in the story.
- [Maître Lepertuis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/maitre_lepertuis.md): Lawyer handling legal matters.
- [Armande Roussel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_teeth_of_the_tiger_se/characters/armande_roussel.md): Member of the Roussel family.

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