# The Third Round — Character guide

> Key figures in The Third Round by H. C. McNeile.

- [Hugh Drummond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/hugh_drummond.md): Drummond moves through drawing rooms and wrecked houses with the same unflappable cheer, lighting a cigarette over a single patched boot while the police see only accident. What shakes him is not danger but the suspicion
- [Mr. William Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/mr_william_robinson.md): Robinson hosts the unconscious Drummond in his New Forest house with the courtesy of a man who has already decided how the interview will end, and he speaks of revenge on Drummond as a weakness he would choose over Profe
- [Mr. Edward Blackton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/mr_edward_blackton.md): Blackton arrives unannounced among the Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate's directors and coolly announces that the anonymous threatening letter to Professor Goodman must have come from someone in the room, watching Lewisham
- [Professor Goodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/professor_goodman.md): Goodman is the unworldly scientist at the center of a bidding war he barely understands, lunching cheerfully with Drummond one day and reduced to a single patched boot the next. His written orders that the process be giv
- [Sir Raymond Blantyre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/sir_raymond_blantyre.md): Sir Raymond chairs the directors' panic when Drummond reveals that Goodman's notes survive and that Blackton holds them, and he is the one who must murmur assent while Blackton dissects the room's secrets aloud. His rest
- [Mr. Freyder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/freyder.md): Freyder watches Robinson's face and shudders at a ferocity he has never seen on any man, then calmly raises the operational point—what about Drummond—that his employer has overlooked in his relish. He is the one who judg
- [Carl Peterson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/carl_peterson.md): Peterson moves through the story as a professional operator, hiring out his talents to a frightened diamond syndicate while quietly pursuing his own ends. He is a man of elaborate disguises, careful plans, and no scruple
- [Mr. Lewisham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/mr_lewisham.md): Lewisham sits among the men who paid Professor Goodman a quarter of a million pounds to suppress his discovery, and he is the weakest of them. When Blackton announces that the threatening letter must have come from someo
- [Algy Longworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/algy_longworth.md): Algy is a fixture of Drummond's circle, a man of cocktails and golf whose sudden engagement to Brenda Goodman transforms him into a public menace. His friends flee him; Drummond bolts the front door and invents illnesses
- [Professor Scheidstrun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/scheidstrun.md): Scheidstrun never appears in the flesh; his persona is the mask Peterson wears when he lures Professor Goodman to a meeting meant to end in death. The substitution is uncovered only later, when Robinson reveals that he i
- [Ted Jerningham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/ted_jerningham.md): Ted is lounging on his yacht with a girl named Pat when he spots Drummond semaphoring from the deck of the passing Gadfly. He spells out the warning without hesitation, takes the tiller of his forty-knot motorboat, and g
- [Toby Sinclair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/toby_sinclair.md): A minor character, possibly an acquaintance of the main cast.
- [Brenda Goodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/brenda_goodman.md): Brenda arrives at the Drummonds' house on the evening of her father's death, sheltered by her mother and hovered over by a distraught Algy. She is kept in the dark about the murder, the diamond discovery, and the threate
- [Mr. Jabez Leibhaus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/mr_jabez_leibhaus.md): A minor character, possibly involved in the diamond trade.
- [Irma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/irma.md): A female character, possibly connected to Peterson or the syndicate.
- [Denny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_third_round_se/characters/denny.md): A servant or loyal companion, possibly to Drummond.

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