Prologue:
Asst Commissioner Harkness
Alexander Cornistone -- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Colin Reeves -- MI5, young
STAFF and RESIDENTS of Combe Island:
Rupert Maycroft, sect., solicitor, 58 years, tall
boatman Jago Tamlyn, convicted GBH
housekeeper Mrs. Burbridge
cook Mrs. Plunkett
Dr. Guy Shaveley, physician
Mrs. Joanna Shaveley, wife of
handyman Dan Padgett and his sickly mother Mrs. Padgett, new-ish to the island and Dan "is not an islander"
Miss Emily Holcombe, last of the family who owned Combe Island, 80 years
butler Roughtwood, 68 years
Millie Tranter, 18, waif
Adrian Boyde, financial assistant, alcoholic, clergy
VISITORS to the island at the time of the death:
arrived Monday:
Nathan Oliver, writer
Miranda Oliver, daughter
Dennis Tremlett, copy editor
arrived Wednesday:
Dr. Raimund Speidel, German diplomat, formerly dip. to China
arrived Thursday:
Dr. Mark Yelland, Midlands animal lab director
INVESTIGATORS:
Adam Dalgliesh
Insp Kate Miskin
Serg Francis Benton-Smith
Edith Glenister, forensic
Associated with the Investigators, backstory
Emma Lavenham -- Dalgliesh
Piers Tarrant -- Miskin
Beverley -- Benton
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