Constable Abel

In the short story Sanctuary, Constable Abel is a police constable in Chipping Cleghorn. He is present at the train station when "Bunch" arrives from London, and Edwin Moss takes the suitcase she is carrying.

Constable Abel takes the suitcase into the parcels office at the station, where it is revealed to contain the clothes described by "Bunch", not the theatrical properties described by Edwin Moss. After Mr Moss leaves, Constable Abel tells "Bunch" that he will not get far unobserved. He also tells her that Miss Marple had been on the phone with the police.

In his off-time, Connstable Abel often discusses roses with "Bunch", including the "respective merits of manure and bone meal for rose bushes".