# The Three Just Men — Character guide

> Key figures in The Three Just Men by Edgar Wallace.

- [Leon Gonsalez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/leon_gonsalez.md): Leon Gonsalez moves through the novel as the most unnerving kind of gentleman: soft-voiced, amused, faintly apologetic about the haste that once cost him a man's cranial measurements. He interrogates Monty Newton with a 
- [Mirabelle Leicester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/mirabelle_leicester.md): Mirabelle Leicester arrives at Oberzohn & Smitts as a laboratory secretary and quickly understands she has never once been free to come and go since. She has read much, guessed much, and her childhood habit of linking ca
- [George Manfred](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/george_manfred.md): George Manfred runs the Triangle from a Curzon Street house where the servants' hall has long since stopped remarking on his eccentricity of sharing breakfast with his staff. He has been inside a condemned cell, he knows
- [Gurther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/gurther.md): Gurther dances well, dresses well, and is the man Oberzohn uses when a message must be delivered in a way that cannot be forgotten. But he has begun smoking in the doctor's presence without permission, and Oberzohn's han
- [Dr. Eruc Oberzohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/eruc_oberzohn.md): Dr. Oberzohn admires ingenuity, locks doors to keep his guests from seeing too much, and digs alone in the dark rather than trust his four desperate men with the work. He contemns all things Teutonic yet has a sneaking r
- [Montague Newton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/montague_newton.md): Monty Newton receives unwelcome visitors, snarls at his footman Fred for thinking too much, and insists to Leon and Meadows that Mirabelle Leicester simply went home. He is not bluffing about the house search — Leon is s
- [Inspector Meadows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/inspector_meadows.md): The Scotland Yard man the Just Men call when they need official muscle, pulled between the law he serves and the vigilantes he quietly trusts.
- [Elijah Washington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/elijah_washington.md): An American detective who lends the Just Men his nerve and his snakebite remedies, wary of curtained train compartments and English reticence alike.
- [Joan Newton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/joan_newton.md): Montague Newton's daughter, swept from a glittering box at the theatre into Oberzohn's curtained limousine and a captivity she never chose.
- [Aunt Alma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/aunt_alma.md): Mirabelle's sharp-tongued guardian at Heavytree Farm, who meets midnight motorcars, mysterious nurses, and Just Men with the same dry suspicion.
- [Raymond Poiccart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/raymond_poiccart.md): The quiet strategist of the Three Just Men, whose cool head and reading of criminal psychology keep his comrades a step ahead of Oberzohn.
- [Johnson Lee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/johnson_lee.md): A blind man whose hidden history with the Oberzohns makes him both a target and a keeper of dangerous knowledge the Just Men need.
- [Lew Cuccini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/lew_cuccini.md): A criminal associate of the Oberzohns.
- [Sam Barberton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/sam_barberton.md): A man entangled in the Oberzohns' gold scheme.
- [Digby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/digby.md): A nervous associate of the Three Just Men.
- [Iwan Pfeiffer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/iwan_pfeiffer.md): A German chemist working for the Oberzohns.
- [Dr. Elver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_just_men_se/characters/dr_elver.md): A doctor involved with the Oberzohn family.

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