Elsie Jeffries

In the short story Have You Got Everything You Want?, Elsie Jeffries is a young American woman travelling on board the Orient Express to join her husband in Istanbul. She was extremely worried and so counsulted Parker Pyne who was on the same train. She told him she had read some lines off the blotter used by her husband with some cryptic remarks: "Wife ... Simplon Express ... just before Venice would be the best time." Her fears were realised when her jewels were stolen when the train was just outside Venice.

Elsie Jeffries was described as a tall woman, "altogether a very charming-looking creature". She wore a mink coat and a dark-brown knitted hat pulled down over one eye and ear. "The other side revealed a charming tip-tilted profile and little golden curls clustering over a shell-like ear." At the time of the events in the story, she had been married for about one and a half years.