Willard Peters

In the short story The Oracle at Delphi, Willard Peters (until recently called Junior) is the eighteen year old son of the wealthy widow Mrs Willard J. Peters. He had a passion for art and culture and dragged his mother on a tour of Greece. He was kidnapped at Delphi by a gang of jewel thieves who wanted a diamond necklace belonging to his mother.

Willard is described as "thin, pale, spectacled and dyspeptic."