Mr Lavington

In the short story The Veiled Lady, Mr Lavington was a blackmailer. Lady Millicent Castle Vaughan had approached Hercule Poirot in dealing with him, Poirot would later discover that real Lavington had been murdered in Holland some time before. Lady Millicent was being impersonated by a jewel thief Gertie and the Lavington he met was also a member of her gang.

According to Inspector Japp, the real Lavington had been part of the robbery of jewels from a shop in Bond Street. Somehow Lavington had double crossed the gang. The other gang members followed Lavington to Holland and murdered him but the jewels were not on him as he had hidden them in his house. Lavington also went by the alias of Croker and also of Reed.

Portrayals
Lavington was also featured in the film adaptation of The Veiled Lady in Series 2 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. But, as in the original story, we only see him being impersonated by one of Gertie's gang. The name of the imposter was not mentioned in the original story but in the adaptation he is given the name Joey Weatherly.