Miss Carroll

In the novel Lord Edgware Dies, Miss Carroll was Lord Edgware's secretary, and had been working for him for five or six years, up to the time of his death. She was present at his home on the night of the murder, and claimed that Jane Wilkinson visited him. Miss Carroll at first said that she was standing on the first floor looking down, and had seen Jane's face distinctly. Although Poirot later proved that she could only have seen the back of the visitor's head, and not the face, Miss Carroll remained sure that it was Jane whom she had seen.

Miss Carroll is a middle-aged woman of about forty-five. She has fair hair, which is turning grey. She has blue eyes, and wears pince-nez. She is very efficient and businesslike. Hastings described her as "neatbess and precision personified".