Lord Leconbury (The Man in the Mist)

In the Tommy and Tuppence short story The Man in the Mist, Lord Leconbury is a nobleman whom Tommy and Tuppence meet at the Grand Hotel in Adlington.

According to Tommy's friend "Bulger" Escourt, there is a rumour that Lord Leconbury would be marrying the noted stage actress Gilda Glen.

Lord Leconbury is described as "a tall man with grey hair and a puffy face." Tuppence notes tnhat he does not appear to be a very pleasant man to marry but Bulger counters that his Lordship is wealthy and a title has a certain glamour after all.

Portrayals
Lord Leconbury is portrayed by Patrick Marley in LWT's 1983 adaptation of the story (Episode 8 of Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime). Like in the original, Leconbury encounters Gilda Glen just as she is leaving the hotel after meeting Bulger, Tommy and Tuppence. Here she actually exchanges some conversation with him. She is not happy to see him and thinks he is following her around.

In this adaptation, Leconbury is positioned as a plausible suspect. He is a noted mountaineer and climber, and one of the ways a killer might have got into Gilda Glen's roon is by climbing up the drainpipes and through her bedroom window.