# Unnatural Death — Character guide

> Key figures in Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

- [Lord Peter Wimsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/lord_peter_wimsey.md): Wimsey moves between Mayfair drawing-rooms and shabby Pimlico flats with the same easy curiosity, and he has quietly installed Miss Climpson as a listening post in other people's business. His friend Parker finds this ne
- [Detective Inspector Parker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/parker.md): Parker grinds through solicitor after solicitor on a hot afternoon while Wimsey chases hunches, and he conducts his own life by an earnest middle-class morality he was raised to trust. He is loyal, dogged, and quietly ex
- [Miss Alexandra Climpson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/miss_climpson.md): Miss Climpson lodges in a modest Pimlico flat she chose because a grander one would not have been suitable, and she deploys her vivacious manner like a tool. Among the Peasgoods and Murgatroyds she asks the innocent ques
- [Mary Whittaker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/mary_whittaker.md): Mary Whittaker nursed her aunt through a long decline and stands to inherit everything, a position that invites both pity and suspicion. The old groom remembers her as a spirited young woman who would not be broke to har
- [Agatha Dawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/agatha_dawson.md): Miss Dawson could never be made to understand why the law should give her money to anyone but her niece, and she distrusted the whole business of wills and lawyers. Her solicitor found her mind clear but hopelessly unleg
- [Mrs. Forrest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/mrs_forrest.md): Mrs. Forrest presses drinks and overnight invitations on guests with a warmth that Wimsey finds altogether too eager, and her story of a dead lover rings false to anyone who has watched real inexperience. She is the sort
- [Mr. Murbles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/murbles.md): Mr. Murbles of Staple Inn handles the legal threads of the Dawson estate, and it is his questioning that first cracks open the household's secrets. He is patient where Wimsey is impetuous, checking his lordship's interru
- [Vera Findlater](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/vera_findlater.md): Vera is the friend who never leaves Mary Whittaker's side, and her constancy is precisely what makes her useful to the defense and troubling to the detectives. She is young, impressionable, and wholly under the spell of 
- [Clara Whittaker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/clara_whittaker.md): Clara Whittaker was a Victorian pioneer who refused marriage, built a celebrated stud farm, and left her money to Agatha Dawson rather than to the relatives who had sneered at her. Her slighted nephew Charles never forga
- [Dr. Edward Carr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/dr_carr.md): Dr. Carr is the physician who attended Agatha Dawson and whose unease about her death cost him his position among patients who preferred comfortable ignorance. Over a Soho dinner he delivers the novel's central dilemma: 
- [Nurse Forbes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/nurse_forbes.md): Nurse Forbes is the professional witness at the bedside, prim, precise, and quietly proud that her patient confided in her rather than in Miss Whittaker. She recalls Miss Dawson's fear of poison, the power of attorney, a
- [Bunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/bunter.md): Bunter is Wimsey's indispensable right hand — photographer, tail, and keeper of the flat's quiet order. His pursuit of the crimson-hatted woman through Liverpool ends in rare defeat, and his mortified, exquisitely phrase
- [Bertha Gotobed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/bertha_gotobed.md): Woman with knowledge of the Whittaker family secrets.
- [Nurse Philliter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/nurse_philliter.md): Another nurse involved in the Dawson household.
- [Mr. Towkington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/towkington.md): Local solicitor involved in the Dawson estate.
- [Mr. Trigg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/mr_trigg.md): Local man who gives evidence about the case.
- [Miss Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/grant.md): Secretary or assistant to one of the characters.
- [Charles Whittaker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/charles_whittaker.md): Male relative of the Whittaker family.
- [Rev. Hallelujah Dawson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/rev_hallelujah_dawson.md): Eccentric clergyman and relative of the Dawsons.
- [Mr. Probyn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/probyn.md): Elderly man with knowledge of the Dawson family.
- [Mr. Tredgold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/mr_tredgold.md): Legal professional involved in the case.
- [Sir Andrew Mackenzie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/sir_andrew_mackenzie.md): Medical expert consulted on the case.
- [Mrs. Marion Mead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/characters/mrs_marion_mead.md): Woman with knowledge of the Whittaker family.

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