Hand in Glove

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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

While he waited for the water to boil, Alfred Belt stared absently at the kitchen calendar: with the compliments of the Little Codling garage. Service with a smile. Geo. Copper. Below this legend was a coloured photograph of a kitten in a boot and below that the month of March. Alfred removed them and exposed a coloured photograph of a little girl smirking through apple blossoms.

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