# Tragedy at Ravensthorpe — Character guide

> Key figures in Tragedy at Ravensthorpe by J. J. Connington.

- [Sir Clinton Driffield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/sir_clinton_driffield.md): Sir Clinton Driffield is the senior police mind called to Ravensthorpe when an American agent is found shot in the museum, and he arrives already suspecting the crime is Part II of an older affair. He keeps his theories 
- [Cecil Chacewater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/cecil_chacewater.md): Cecil Chacewater returns to Ravensthorpe under a cloud, having left after a disagreement with his brother, and meets Inspector Armadale's questions with cool, deliberate resistance. He will not be trapped into a caution 
- [Joan Chacewater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/joan_chacewater.md): Joan Chacewater is one of only two people at Ravensthorpe who claim to know anything definite about the killing, yet Michael Clifton warns that she really knows nothing to speak of. Her position inside the family gives h
- [Mr. Foss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/mr_foss.md): Mr. Foss is the American agent shot dead in the Ravensthorpe Museum, the body Sir Clinton and Armadale examine before anything else. His only known connection to the house was the business of the Medusa Medallions, and S
- [Michael Clifton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/michael_clifton.md): Michael Clifton is the first voice on the wire, reporting Foss's murder to the Chief Constable and assuring him that no one has left the premises and the body is untouched. When Sir Clinton arrives, Clifton is waiting at
- [Inspector Armadale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/inspector_armadale.md): Inspector Armadale is the working policeman on the Ravensthorpe case, summoned to Sir Clinton's room and driven up in the Chief Constable's car. He is competent but impatient, pressing Cecil Chacewater for answers and fi
- [Tommy Marden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/tommy_marden.md): Marden is the sort of neighbour who knows every path, lock, and hiding place around Ravensthorpe, and his testimony about slipping against a shattered display case becomes one of the investigation's first fixed points. S
- [Maurice Chacewater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/maurice_chacewater.md): Maurice is the Chacewater brother whose body lies in the museum bay, shot at contact range, and whose life the investigation must reconstruct from the fragments others let slip. Cecil's reluctance to identify him, and th
- [Foxy Polegate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/foxy_polegate.md): Foxton Polegate — 'Foxy' to everyone — is the kind of young man who drops in uninvited, loses his invitation card, and somehow ends up at the centre of a scheme involving thick gloves and the Medusa Medallions. Foss's ov
- [Mold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/mold.md): Mold is the quiet, watchful servant whose duties place him at the threshold of every important discovery — he stands aside for Sir Clinton, then resumes his post to keep onlookers out. His familiarity with the museum's c
- [Una Rainhill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/una_rainhill.md): Una Rainhill trades banter with Joan about aging, marriage, and Michael's doomed business prospects, but her composure marks her as someone who watches as much as she speaks. Foss's account of the fake-burglary plan name
- [Mr. Brackley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tragedy_at_ravensthorpe_se/characters/mr_brackley.md): A dubious character with possible criminal ties.

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