Gerald Parker

In the short story The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, Gerald Parker was a friend of Captain Hastings. Parker's hobby was houses and flats. He was always on the look out for good properties which he would buy and then move into. In the space of five years, Hastings said, he had occupied some half a dozen flats and maisonnettes in London.

It was at a party hosted by Parker that Hastings met John Robinson and his wife Stella. They told him how they had recently managed to rent a flat in fashionable Knightsbridge for eighty pounds a year in an area where the rent should usually be in the order of several hundreds of pounds.

Portrayals
Gerald Parker was played by Ian Price in the film adaptation of The Adventure of the Cheap Flat in Series 2 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. Here his name was changed to "Teddy Parker".