# The Three Taps — Character guide

> Key figures in The Three Taps by Ronald A. Knox.

- [Miles Bredon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/miles_bredon.md): Bredon arrives at the Load of Mischief to determine whether a heavily insured death was suicide — which would void the policy — or something the company must pay for. He is imperturbable to the point of laziness, absorbe
- [Angela Bredon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/angela_bredon.md): Angela moves through the inn as wife, confidante, and unofficial investigator, ferrying messages to Mrs. Davis and teasing Miles out of his smug silences. She is the one who notices when his erratic deportment signals a 
- [Mr. Brinkman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mr_brinkman.md): Brinkman serves as the dead man's secretary and, by the evidence of his flight, something considerably more complicated — a man prepared to bolt for South America with his employer's money and car. Yet he also paid Mrs. 
- [Mr. Mottram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mr_mottram.md): Mottram was rich, known in Chilthorpe from boyhood, and estranged from his only local blood relation — a nephew he quarrelled with over politics and never met again. His wealth makes his testamentary dispositions the fir
- [Mr. Leyland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mr_leyland.md): Leyland served in the same battalion as Bredon, and their reunion at the inn lets the amateur and the professional work the same ground without quarrelling. He is the one who states flatly that suicide is 'right off the 
- [Mr. Pulteney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mr_pulteney.md): Pulteney lodged in the room adjoining Mottram's on the night of the death, claims to have slept soundly, and offers no corroboration of his own movements. His response to the tragedy — 'In that case, Mrs. Davis, I shall 
- [Mr. Eames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mr_eames.md): Eames moves through the case as a man who knows more than he says, and the company's teasing about his secretiveness only sharpens the question of what he is protecting. When a scribbled note from Brinkman orders him to 
- [Simmonds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/simmonds.md): Simmonds has managed what no outsider should—someone inside the inn to let him in and out after hours, and a barmaid whose jumpiness suggests she knows why. The Bredons see a possible mésalliance brewing and decide he is
- [Mrs. Bredon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/mrs_bredon.md): Miles Bredon's mother, a minor character in the household.
- [The Old Gentleman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/the_old_gentleman.md): He holds court at the dinner table, dissecting the word 'genial' and mourning the anecdote as the enemy of conversation, while the others volley back. His talk is all surface polish and quiet judgment, and Angela Bredon 
- [Emmeline](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/emmeline.md): A woman mentioned affectionately by another character.
- [The Bishop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_three_taps_se/characters/the_bishop.md): A bishop who appears in a chapter scene.

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