After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

Tuppence

Tommy

Julius P. Hersheimmer

Sir James Peel Edgerton

Rita Vandemeyer

Mr. Carter

Kramenin

Whittington

Boris

Dr. Hall

The German

Albert

Conrad

First Clerk
October 9, 1983

Tuppence

Tommy

Julius P. Hersheimmer

Sir James Peel Edgerton

Rita Vandemeyer

Mr. Carter

Kramenin

Whittington

Boris

Dr. Hall

The German

Albert

Conrad

First Clerk
