Mrs Honeycott

In the Tommy and Tuppence short story The Man in the Mist, Mrs Honeycott lives at the White House on Morgan's Avenue in Adlington. Tommy and Tuppence met her when they called at the White House with the intention of meeting Gilda Glen. Gilda had told them that she stayed at the White House. She wanted their help and asked them to call on her.

Mrs Honeycott provided the Beresfords with valuable background information on Gilda Glen. Gilda was actually her younger sister. She had run off at the age of seventeen and married some unsuitable young man who was below her station. Shortly thereafter, she left her husband and went on the stage where she made her name. More recently she wanted to marry some important person and wanted to get a divorce from her husband but her husband was standing firm.

As Tommy was wearing a Father Brown priest's costume, Mrs Honeycott told Tommy that she did not hold with the Roman Catholic religion and never thought the day wouyld come when she would see a priest in her house. Her father had been a Church of England reverend. Mrs Honeycott also disagreed with her sister going on the stage--acting was, in her view, pure wickedness.

Portrayals
In LWT's 1983 adaptation of the story (Episode 8 of Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime), Mrs Honeycott is portrayed by Anne Stallybrass. The credits list her firstname as "Dorothea" although this is not used in the episode dialogue.