Miss Livingstone

In the novel Elephants Can Remember, Miss Livingstone is the current secretary to Ariadne Oliver. She is a new arrival and had just replaced Miss Sedgwick. Outwardly she looks "very long-faced with a sallow skin" and "purposefully efficient". "Every line of her face said, 'I am very efficient.'" Nonetheless Ariadne finds her difficult to work with and compared her unfavourably with Miss Sedgwick. Miss Livingstone does not understand her employer's haphazard ways like where she would randomly store things and is not much help when Ariadne, in pursuit of a mystery, needs to find some old address books. At one point she hesitates to search a tea-caddy table and tells Ariadne, "A desk book wouldn't be likely to be in a tea-caddy." But it is.