Stock characters

Stock characters are stereotypical characters in works of fiction. There is a wide range of stock characters of different genders, ages, and social classes.

The elderly spinster

 * Jane Marple
 * Lavinia Pinkerton - Murder is Easy
 * Miss Ramsbottom - A Pocket Full of Rye
 * Caroline Sheppard - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The retired (often Anglo-Indian) military officer

 * Colonel Bantry - The Thirteen Problems and more
 * Colonel Easterbrook - A Murder is Announced
 * Major Palgrave (although he had been posted in Kenya, rather than in India) - A Caribbean Mystery

The young adventurer

 * Tommy Beresford - The Secret Adversary & Partners in Crime
 * Anthony Cade - The Secret of Chimneys
 * Bobby Jones - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
 * Jimmy Thesiger - The Seven Dials Mystery

The young adventuress

 * Anne Beddingfeld - The Man in the Brown Suit
 * Tuppence Beresford - The Secret Adversary & Partners in Crime
 * Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent - The Secret of Chimneys & The Seven Dials Mystery
 * Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
 * Victoria Jones - They Came to Baghdad
 * Virginia Revel - The Secret of Chimneys

The young heiress

 * Flossie Carrington - The Plymouth Express
 * Linnet Doyle - Death on the Nile
 * Ruth Kettering - The Mystery of the Blue Train
 * Louise Laxton - The Case of the Caretaker/The Case of the Caretaker's Wife
 * Ellie Rogers - Endless Night

The (outspoken) American

 * Mrs Boynton - Appointment with Death
 * Carrie Gardener - Evil Under the Sun
 * Mrs Hubbard - Murder on the Orient Express
 * Marie Van Schuyler - Death on the Nile
 * Lady Westholme - Appointment with Death

The domineering mother

 * Mrs Allerton - Death on the Nile
 * Rachel Argyle - Ordeal by Innocence (adopted mother)
 * Mrs Boynton - Appointment with Death (stepmother)
 * Mrs Burton-Cox - Elephants Can Remember (adopted mother)
 * Salome Otterbourne - Death on the Nile