using that stage name, born Rosy Legge. Conway Jefferson likes her, going so far as to say he will adopt her and make her his heir once he alters his will. She was raised poor, and her outward appearance was like his daughter Rosamund. She was unlike Rosamund in personality, as Ruby was a gold-digger. Josie Turner: Ruby's cousin, a professional dancer, who asked Ruby to come to the hotel to take her place on the dance floor while her ankle heals after an injury. She is shrewd, practical, and wants money. Raymond Starr: born Thomas Ramon Starr. He works as the tennis pro and dancer at the Majestic Hotel. He has hopes to woo Adelaide, once she is ready to consider remarriage. He loses out graciously. Sir Henry Clithering: retired head of Scotland Yard and friend to Miss Marple. He is called to help in the investigation by his friend Conway Jefferson. Superintendent Harper: from the police in Glenshire, where the hotel is located. He joins the investigation. Basil Blake: young man who recently moved into a cottage just outside St Mary Mead, and enjoys scorning the older generation. He works for a film studio about 30 miles away, and appears at the house mainly at weekends. Miss Marple knows of his earlier life as an ARP warden who saved lives in a burning building, getting injured in the process. This is the only allusion to World War II. Dinah Lee: woman with platinum blonde hair who appears at Blake’s home. They are married but tell no one in the village. George Bartlett: Ruby's last dance partner. He has a car parked at the hotel which is stolen and reported missing the morning after Ruby’s murder. He is a shy man. Pamela Reeves: Local girl, aged 16 and a Girl Guide. She attended a Guides event on the night Ruby was murdered; her parents reported her missing to the police at 9 pm, hours after she was due home. The next day she is named as the corpse found in Bartlett’s stolen and burned car. Florence Small: Pamela Reeves's friend, in whom she confided the story of the screen test at the hotel. Florence gave away her nervousness to Miss Marple, who chose her as the girl to ask what really happened that evening. Hugo McClean: long time friend of Adelaide who wanted to marry her. In the end,