The Spanish Cape Mystery

Persons of the Story

Godfrey, Walter   owner of Spanish Cape

Godfrey, Stella     his wife

Godfrey, Rosa    their daughter

Kummer, David     Stella’s brother

Constable, Laura   fat, frenetic, forty

Cort, Earle       Rosa’s fiancé

Marco, John     Messer Diavolo

Munn, Cecilia     ex-Broadway

Munn, Joseph A.   ex-Arizona

Kidd (Captain)    a local character

Penfield, Lucius    attorney-at-law

Stebbins, Harrya   local gas merchant

Waring, Hollis     the absent neighbor

Burleigh    housekeeper

Jorum     man-of-all-work

Pitts     Stella’s maid

Tiller      house valet

   (and nameless others)

Macklin (Judge)    a vacationing jurist

Moley (Inspector)    the local law

Queen, Ellery     the incorrigible logician

Spanish Cape, a peculiar coastal formation on the North Atlantic seaboard; and environs. The Cape, an outthrust headland of sheer rock about a square mile in area, is connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of cliff. Although it is only a few hundred yards from a wide motor highway and is flanked by public bathing beaches, it is utterly private and virtually inaccessible.