Winnie King

In the short story The Girdle of Hyppolita, Winnie King is a fifteen and a half year old English schoolgirl and the daughter of Canon King, the the Canon of Cranchester Cathedral. She was travelling on a train from London to Paris to join a finishing school run by Miss Lavinia Pope but disappeared mysteriously. When Chief Inspector Japp heard that Poirot was travelling to Paris on another case, he asked him to help in the search for the missing school girl.