In the novella Dead Man's Mirror, Westshire is a county in England. The villages Hamborough St John and Hamborough St Mary are located in this county. In the story, Major Riddle is the Chief Constable of this county.
Locations in Westshire[]
- Hamborough St John
- Carpenter and Sons - fruitier
- Post office
- Hamborough St Mary
- Hamborough Close - the country house of The Chevenix-Gore family
- Whimperley - railway station with trains from St Pancras Station
Location of Westshire[]
The location of Westshire is not stated but there are some hints in the text. To get to Hamborough St John from London, one departs from St Pancras Station which serves the Midlands. Poirot is told to stop the train at Whimperley. A train which departs from St Pancras at 4.30 pm reached Whimperley at 7.50 pm, an elapsed time of 3 hours 20 minutes. At the lower end of 60 mph for an express train in the 1930s, this is a distance of some 200 miles. This suggests a location somewhere equivalent to Staffordshire, Warwickshire or the West Riding of Yorkshire.