Mrs Kingston Bruce

In the novel The Affair of the Pink Pearl, Mrs Kingston Bruce is the wife of Colonel Kingston Bruce. The pair live in Wimbledon with their daughter Beatrice. When one of their house guests loses an expensive pearl, Mrs Kingston Bruce more or less prevails on her daughter to contact The International Detective Agency who does so with great reluctance. Mrs Kingston Bruce believes that the pearl was taken by one Mr Rennie, a young man who is her daughter's boyfriend. Mrs Kingston Bruce describes Rennie as "That dreadful socialist young man. He loves the Russians and the Germans and hates the English—what else can you expect?” “He never touched it,”