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Guess the Character Game

Adam_Scarlet 31 Jul 09 at 3:45 p.m. GMT

Hey, all. :)

I thought this forum could use a "Guess the Character" game, seeming as there are so many characters throughout the wonderful world of Christie. It's a pretty simple format. You pretend that you're describing the character in 1st person.

e.g.

"I am a Belgian detective, infact the most famous detective in the world. I like to use my little grey cells and I love to take great care with my beatufiul moustaches".

Okay, that's obviously Poirot. When the next person guesses right they can post one and the game carries on like that. :)

I'll start with the first 'question'; an easy one.

"I am a famous American actress, married to a Lord. Our marriage is on the rocks at the moment, and I'm afraid I've fallen for a rather wealthy Duke".

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Tommy_A_Jones 03 Feb 12 at 2:15 p.m. GMT

You were on the right Lines Nofret

Tommy_A_Jones 28 Jan 12 at 11:09 a.m. GMT

No Not Mr Treves

Nofret 28 Jan 12 at 5:49 a.m. GMT

OLd Mr Treves in Towards Zero, having to take an upstairs room at the hotel? "He" might be the murderer he had recognised.

Tommy_A_Jones 26 Jan 12 at 1:22 p.m. GMT

Thankyou Here is mine;

"I am set in my ways amd don't like changeing my plans but If I have to I have to, Shame really, He's quite Happy where he is".

Mr_Graves 25 Jan 12 at 3:39 a.m. GMT

Very well done, Tommy, it is indeed the escaped convict, known to us only as 'Freemantle Freddy', but who was never seen. Your turn now.

Tommy_A_Jones 24 Jan 12 at 1:04 p.m. GMT

The Escaped Convict in The Sittaford Mystery

Nofret 23 Jan 12 at 7:18 p.m. GMT

Is it Jacko Argyle from Ordeal by Innocence?

StephenNorton 23 Jan 12 at 5:46 p.m. GMT

is it perhaps mr. Brown from the secret adversary?

Mr_Graves 23 Jan 12 at 5:31 p.m. GMT

Not a character from Chimneys or a Poirot novel.

You probably only know me by my nickname.

Tommy_A_Jones 23 Jan 12 at 12:56 p.m. GMT

Paul Renauld in Murder On The Links I think he was talked about but never seen until he was Dead

StephenNorton 23 Jan 12 at 9:41 a.m. GMT

is it a character from a poirot novel?

Nofret 23 Jan 12 at 6:57 a.m. GMT

Is it Robert Underhay from Taken at the Flood?

StephenNorton 22 Jan 12 at 4:28 p.m. GMT

Is it perhaps a character from the secret of chimneys?

Mr_Graves 22 Jan 12 at 5:12 a.m. GMT

Not Eva Kane- this character is still alive at the time the novel is set. 

I was suspected, of course, but that was only natural. 

Nofret 21 Jan 12 at 6:04 a.m. GMT

From Mrs Mcginty's Dead, one of my favourites, is it Eva Kane?

Mr_Graves 21 Jan 12 at 1:07 a.m. GMT

Not Li Chang Yen, and not a fabricated character. This character does exist, but we never meet them. This person is a criminal, however.

Nofret 20 Jan 12 at 10:59 a.m. GMT

Not Li Chang Yen, then?

StephenNorton 19 Jan 12 at 6:29 p.m. GMT

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May I ask you Mr_Graves does this pcharacter exists within the book, or is it a fabrication, like the "murder" presented in the first possible solution of the murder in the orientexpress?

Mr_Graves 19 Jan 12 at 5:26 p.m. GMT

Not Number Four. Not someone as prominent as that- I think this character may be overestimating their notoriety.

StephenNorton 19 Jan 12 at 4:52 p.m. GMT

Is it number 4 from the big four?