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Persons this mystery is about:
Sir Henry Merrivale,
of
the Secret Service, is a tremendous, bald-headed Englishman who curses
with a vengeance, looks malevolently over his spectacles, and is known
and respected by the whole London Police Force as H.M.
Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters,
is
ruddy of face, bland as a car-sharper, and wears his grizzled hair
carefully brushed to hid his bald spot. He has shrewd eyes and a
disconcerting way of using them. To be suspicious of everything and take
nothing for granted is his simple code.
Doctor John Sanders,
a
serious-faced young man who is so wrapped up in forensic medicine that
he hasn't had time to look at life. There is not a suspicious bone in
his body, but he hates bluff with a scientist's hatred.
Peter Ferguson,
the
queer old blighter who is interested in Egyptian art, is clerkly in
appearance - with a fringe of gray hair on his bald head, and a look of
dour tolerance on his face. He once received the Egyptian Order of
Merit, and is duly proud of it.
Charles Drake,
junior partner
in the law firm of Drake, Rogers & Drake, is a brisk man of
fifty-odd, with a rolling walk like a sailor, and a pince-nez which
pushes the bridge of his nose up into a hump and makes his eyes look big
and gray.
Sir Dennis Blystone,
tall and impressive, has a
personality which seems at once forceful and hesitant. He is a famous
London surgeon whose carefully tailored clothes and fine hands inspire
confidence and ease.
Marcia Blysonte,
a very pretty girl of
twenty-one, has brown hair, a short, straight nose, and eyebrows that
turn up at the corners. There is a particularly luminous quality about
her fine brown eyes, and she is terribly curious about everything.
Bernard Schumman,
old
and mild-tempered, has something of the air of a clergyman or a minor
statesman. His eyes are candid, pale blue and troubled. His hands, very
delicate, are obviously the hands of a scholar.
Felix Haye,
an
immense, jovial-looking man, wears a tonsure of red hair that gives him
the look of a dissipated monk He is an investment broker, a bachelor,
and an authority on parlor tricks.
Bonita Sinclair,
soft,
sleek and long of limb, has very dark, glossy hair and a face that is
full of great beauty and sensitiveness. Her small mouth and strong round
chin give her a humorless look of earnestness and imagination.
