# Tracks in the Snow — Character guide

> Key figures in Tracks in the Snow by Godfrey R. Benson.

- [James Callaghan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/james_callaghan.md): Callaghan moves through the City and the countryside as a man of means and odd enthusiasms, at once credulous and unnervingly persistent. When Peters is murdered, he is already ahead of the narrator, sowing doubt among t
- [Eustace Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/eustace_peters.md): Peters is the magnetic centre of the Long Wilton circle: a man of vast and curious knowledge, generous with his hospitality, engaged to the charming Miss Denison, and quietly entangled with figures from his Eastern past.
- [William Vane-Cartwright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/william_vane_cartwright.md): Vane-Cartwright arrives at Grenvile Combe as Peters's Oxford junior and Eastern acquaintance, a silent man whose rare remarks cut deep. His suspicious generosity to Longhurst's beneficiaries and his sudden returns to the
- [Reuben Trethewy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/reuben_trethewy.md): Trethewy lives in a cottage by the lane gate, a short, sturdy, weathered man whom Peters prizes for his multifarious skills and rough worldly knowledge. His walk home through fresh snow on the night of the murder fixes h
- [Walter Longhurst](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/walter_longhurst.md): Longhurst emerges through the testimony of an aged Methodist lay-preacher who knew him in Australia: a careless liver who nonetheless gave money he could ill afford to religious work, and later sent anonymous banknotes t
- [Melchior Thalberg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/melchior_thalberg.md): Thalberg is the quiet guest whose Schubert and Schumann songs linger in the narrator's memory long after the evening at Peters's house. A City man of modest appearance, he seems an unlikely agent for delicate errands, ye
- [Charles Bryanston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/charles_bryanston.md): A named character with limited but notable appearances.
- [Dr. Verschoyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/dr_verschoyle.md): A doctor who appears in the story.
- [Mrs. Trethewy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/mrs_trethewy.md): A member of the Trethewy family.
- [Ellen Trethewy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/ellen_trethewy.md): A female character from the Trethewy household.
- [Edith Summers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/edith_summers.md): A character who appears in the narrative.
- [Mr. Driver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/mr_driver.md): A minor character with a few mentions.
- [Sergeant Speke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/sergeant_speke.md): A police sergeant involved in the case.
- [Arkell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tracks_in_the_snow_se/characters/arkell.md): A minor character mentioned in passing.

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