In the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Biddle & Russell is a firm of house agents and valuers. Arthur Badcock is one of the employees at the firm. Florrie West and Miss Grundle are also working there. Detective Inspector Craddock was discussing with the local inspector Frank Cornish about possible motives for the murder of Heather Badcock such as another woman for the husband. However, according to Cornish, there is nothing much at Biddle & Russell to excite a man.