- Harriet Vane – protagonist, a mystery writer
- Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective
- Letitia Martin – Dean of Shrewsbury College
- Helen de Vine – new Research Fellow at Shrewsbury College
- Miss Lydgate – Harriet's former tutor[2]
- Dr Baring – Warden of Shrewsbury College
- Miss Hillyard – history don at Shrewsbury College
- Phoebe Tucker – Harriet's old college friend
- Viscount Saint-George – Lord Peter's nephew, an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford
- Reggie Pomfret – undergraduate at Queen's College
- Miss Burrows – College librarian
- Annie Wilson – scout at Shrewsbury College
- Padgett – Head Porter at Shrewsbury College
- Bunter – Lord Peter's manservant
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