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description: Persons this mystery is about:Sir Henry Merrivaleof 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 Mastersis 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 Sandersa 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 Fergusonthe 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 Drakejunior partner in the law firm of Drake Rogers &amp; 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 Blystonetall 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 Blysontea 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 Schummanold 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 Hayean 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 Sinclairsoft 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.
language: English
title: Death in Five Boxes
publisher: Tower & Leisure Sales Co