Rose (The House of Lurking Death)

In the short story The House of Lurking Death, Rose is the kitchen maid at Thurnly Grange. She is the niece of Mrs Holloway, the cook. Tuppence told Tommy that she had questioned a "housemaid". She had told her that Dennis Radclyffe had come back at quarter to seven and had consumed a cocktail before dinner. She was just about to wash the glass but Tuppence managed to take it to have it analysed. Considering that the maid in question was doing the washing up, she might well have been the kitchen maid Rose.

Portrayals
In LWT's 1983 TV adaptation of The House of Lurking Death, Rose Holloway is portrayed by Kim Clifford. Here she is not the neice but the daughter of Mrs Holloway but she plays essentially the same role in the plot. The scene where Tuppence rescues the glass just before Rose is about to wash it is dramatized. There is also an additional side plot. Here, Dennis Radcliffe is portrayed as a philanderer who has a relationship with Lois Hargreaves, another secret one with Mary Chilcott and he also has something going on with the parlourmaid Esther Quant. Tommy accuses Rose of also being in love with Radcliffe and thus she would have a plausible motive to kill Lois, Esther Quant and Radcliffe out of jealousy. Rose denies this although she admits that she likes Radcliffe.