2025 Cast of Characters

(in order of appearance)

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Cast of Characters in order of appearance

Setting: PINE TREE LODGE

LUCY WHITAKER, young wife and mother, aspiring writer

PAUL WHITAKER, her husband, having an affair with Peter?

ELEANOR WHITAKER, her 18-month-old daughter

MARGAUX PEALE née MARJORY JOHNSON, older sister and literary agent of…

JASPER ST. JOHN née JIMMY JOHNSON, prolific mystery writer with writer’s block

BUNNY BEECHAM, elderly, devoted fan of The Author, Peter’s cousin

J.P. DEVERALL (Jane and Peter), co-writers of an unpublished psycho-thriller romantasy noir series

ED TREMAYNE, ex-Navy, beginning writer of historical fiction

CHARLES (CHUCK) KOWALSKI, New Yorker, ex-cop, planning to write true crime

MAVIS KELLY, young, silent observer, doesn’t drink

Sicfic560@memail.com, SICARD FICINO, born May 1960, of noble ancestry, sometimes hostile,  vintage Citroen

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JEN/JENNIFER, teenager, lives in the main house past the barn, Mavis’ niece

WILBUR, Jen’s pig

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BUTCHIE, long black hair, Tesla Cybertruck

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hog, Wilbur’s cousin

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Man in room 28 (if not Sicard Ficino)

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INNKEEPER, Jen’s Mom?

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TONI, young Italian hiker, taller, darker

CICCIO, young Italian hiker, shorter, fairer

MOWLY, a Mowl—mouse-owl, fond of Mary Oliver’s poetry

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GIANNI FICINELLI, nickname Nonny, a researcher who had once threatened to expose Jasper for stealing material

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DANTE FICKNELLY, police officer?