Muriel King

In the Parker Pyne short story The House at Shiraz, Muriel King, originally from Streatham Hill, was the companion of Lady Esther Carr. Muriel travelled with her employer to Iran where they settled down and stayed on at the town of Shiraz. During the journey, a German pilot Herr Schlagal had met Muriel and fell in love with her. Later, he tried to visit her at Shiraz but was told that she had died.

There was clearly a mystery behind her death and how Parker Pyne resolves it forms the main plot of the story.