# The Viaduct Murder — Character guide

> Key figures in The Viaduct Murder by Ronald A. Knox.

- [Gordon Davenant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/gordon_davenant.md): A literal-minded clubman whose habit of hiding in secret passages and dodging the police makes him the investigation's most suspicious innocent man.
- [Mordaunt Reeves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/mordaunt_reeves.md): The sharp-witted investigator who punctures every theory with logic, insisting that observation and inference are two very different things.
- [Mr. Carmichael](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/mr_carmichael.md): A steady presence in the investigation who produces the photograph that cracks open the case's most guarded secret.
- [Marryatt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/marryatt.md): A nerve-ridden clergyman who has given up whisky on doctor's orders and cannot shake the feeling that Brotherhood is haunting him.
- [Momerie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/momerie.md): A theological work by Brotherhood that passes through guilty hands and becomes a quiet clue in the murder investigation.
- [Old Brotherhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/old_brotherhood.md): Brotherhood is the absent center of the case: a daily commuter, recently ruined, whose body the four golfers believe they have found — though no one has actually heard from or of him since. The evidence cuts both ways, s
- [Miss Rendall-Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/miss_rendall_smith.md): A lady who appears in the narrative with limited presence.
- [Sullivan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/sullivan.md): A minor character mentioned in the investigation.
- [Mr. Brotherood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/mr_brotherood.md): A variant spelling of a Brotherhood member with limited mentions.
- [Alexander Gordon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/alexander_gordon.md): A variant name for Gordon, possibly a different person.
- [Mrs. Bramston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/mrs_bramston.md): A minor female character with a few mentions.
- [Colonel Steele](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/colonel_steele.md): A minor military figure mentioned in the narrative.
- [Sergeant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/sergeant.md): A minor police figure with limited role.
- [Mr. Masterman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_viaduct_murder_se/characters/mr_masterman.md): A minor character with a few mentions.

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