# Clara Whittaker — Unnatural Death character guide

> Clara Whittaker in Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** poor Miss Whittaker, Miss Whittaker, Clara Whittaker, This Miss Clara, Clara, Miss Clara Whittaker, Miss Clara

**First appearance:** 0013-xii-a-tale-of-two-spinsters

## Snapshot

A dead great-aunt who cut her hair, bred horses, and made a fortune — and whose will set the whole Whittaker family at each other's throats.

## Who they are

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 forgave the insult, and the resentment passed down to his daughter Mary. Though long dead when the novel opens, Clara is the origin of every motive in the case — her fortune is the prize, and her defiance of family expectation is the wound that never healed.

## In the story

### [VIII: Concerning Crime](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/chapters/viii-concerning-crime)

Described as a pioneering horse-breeder who left her fortune to Agatha Dawson, bypassing her own family.

### [Genealogical Table](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/unnatural_death_se/chapters/genealogical-table)

Sister of Agatha Dawson and mother of Mary Whittaker.

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