Authors: Mary Roberts Rinehart
The following pages contain a gallery of the principal characters in THE ALBUM
GEORGE TALBOT Mrs. Talbot’s son; he was often out late at night but was not allowed a latch key | LYDIA TALBOT Mrs. Talbot’s sister-in-law; a perfect specimen of the dependent spinster of the nineties |
MRS. TALBOT Her husband had vanished years ago; she had a mania for locking up everything and keeping the keys | JIM WELLINGTON Young and in love with his wife, who led him a merry dance |
HELEN WELLINGTON Jim’s wife; she gave lively parties, and the neighbors deplored her housekeeping | LOUISA HALL Twenty-eight and attractive, but wilting under the thumb of her domineering mother |
MARGARET LANCASTER Emily’s sister, not yet resigned to spinsterhood but devoted to her mother and stepfather | MR. LANCASTER Husband of the bedridden first victim. Mild and elderly; stepfather to Emily and Margaret, who had taken his name |
MR. DALTON A big man, floridly handsome; jealousy may have caused the bitter quarrel with his wife | EMILY LANCASTER A born old maid with an enormous pompadour, she waited hand and foot on her invalid mother—who was to be murdered |
MRS. HALL Her husband had been dead for twenty years, but she still wore deep mourning | HERBERT RANCHESTER DEAN A criminologist who could work with the police |
HOLMES The Hall’s butler-chauffeur; a strange little man who knew a little and guessed a lot | DANIELS Nobody noticed him because he was a street-cleaner |