striking-looking model, brought back from Italy by Tommy Matt D'Urfey, Tommy's roommate and a friend of Linda, a solid and friendly chap Donna Beatrice, real name Harriet Pickering, once Lafcadio's model, become a rather dotty old lady obsessed with the spirit world W. Tennyson Potter, a failed and miserable artist taken in by Lafcadio Claire Potter, his wife, also an artist and a former Lafcadio model, a despairing but useful woman Lisa Capella, an Italian, once Lafcadio's model, become cook to the household in her old age Fred Rennie, Lafcadio's old assistant, still making his secret paint recipes Max Fustian, Lafcadio's biographer and art dealer, a foppish, self-important man Albert Campion, an old friend of Belle, an adventurer, detective and universal uncle Stanislaus Oates, a senior Scotland Yard man, Campion's friend Film, TV or theatrical adaptations It was the basis for the second series of Campion in 1960, with Bernard Horsfall in the title role. The story was again adapted for television by the BBC, the fourth of eight Campion stories starring Peter Davison as Campion and Andrew Burt as Oates. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 5 March 1989. The series was shown in the United States by PBS. References External links An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society.uk/bibliography A series of Allingham plot summaries, including many Campion books, from the UK Margery Allingham Society A page about the book from the Margery Allingham Archive Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions 1934 British novels Doubleday, Doran books Novels by Margery Allingham Novels about artists Novels set in London British novels adapted into television shows