Hugo Drake

In the novel Hallowe'en Party, Hugo Edmund Drake was the husband, and first cousin, of Rowena Drake. He was also the nephew of Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe. Hugo had died a year or two before the time of the fateful party at Apple Trees.

Hugo was a banker and also a good athlete who was very keen on games and sports and used to play on the village cricket team. Some six years before the events in the book, he contracted polio while he and Rowena was holidaying abroad and became a cripple. He insisted on being independent and was knocked down by a car while trying to cross a road. The car had been stolen from a Mr Waterhouse in Medchester and the perpetrators were never caught.