For Mivie and Greg with my love
Cast of Characters
Jonathan Royal, of Highfold Manor, Cloudyfold, Dorset
Caper, his butler
Aubrey Mandrake, born Stanley Footling, Poetic Dramatist
Sandra Compline, of Penfelton Manor
William Compline, her elder son
Nicholas Compline, her younger son
Chloris Wynne, William’s fiancée
Dr. Francis Hart, a plastic surgeon
Madame Elise Lisse, beauty specialist, of the Studio Lisse
Lady Hersey Amblington, Jonathan’s distant cousin, beauty specialist of the Salon Herséy
Thomas, a dancing footman
Mrs. Pouting, Jonathan’s housekeeper
James Bewling, an outside hand at Highfold
Thomas Bewling, his brother
Roderick Alleyn, Chief Detective-Inspector, C.I., New Scotland Yard
Agatha Troy Alleyn, his wife
Walter Copeland, Rector of Winton St. Giles
Dinah Copeland, his daughter
Fox, Detective-Inspector, C.I., New Scotland Yard
Detective-Sergeant Thompson, a photographic expert
Detective-Sergeant Bailey, a finger-print expert
A Housemaid
Superintendent Blandish, of the Great Chipping Constabulary