FOR
JONATHAN ELSOM
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Alfred Belt — Manservant to Mr. Period
Mrs. Mitchell — Cook to Mr. Period
Mr. Percival Pyke Period
Nicola Maitland-Mayne
Désirée, Lady Bantling — Now Mrs. Bimbo Dodds, formerly Mrs. Harold Cartell, née Désirée Ormsbury
Andrew Bantling — Her son by her first marriage
Bimbo Dodds — Her third and present husband
Mr. Harold Cartell — Her second husband
Constance Cartell — His sister
Trudi — Her maid
Mary Ralston (“Moppett”) — Her adopted niece
Leonard Leiss
George Copper — Garage proprietor
Mrs. Nicholls — Wife of Vicar of Ribblethorpe
Superintendent Williams — Little Codling constabulary
Sergeant Noakes — Little Codling constabulary
A foreman drainlayer
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn — C.I.D. New Scotland Yard
Agatha Troy Alleyn — Wife of Superintendent Alleyn
Inspector Fox — C.I.D. New Scotland Yard
Detective Sergeant Thompson — C.I.D. New Scotland Yard
Detective Sergeant Bailey — C.I.D. New Scotland Yard
Sir James Curtis — Pathologist
Dr. Elkington