People/CharactersLady Hattie Stubbs

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Works (2)

Titles	Order
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly by Agatha Christie

Character description

Description

Lady Hattie Stubbs was an extremely beautiful Creole, i.e., a member of a Euro-Caribbean family living in the West Indies. Her entire family was killed when she was about 14, the family fortune is lost, and she was sent to France to a convent. Amy Folliat, a widowed English gentlewoman, undertakes to introduce her to society. She encourages Hattie to marry the wealthy, if 23-years-older Sir George Stubbs, believing that he will take care of her, and with her biddable, affectionate nature, Hattie will be happy. She takes the style of Lady Stubbs, although Sir George's knighthood is self-invented.

The characters waffle on whether she is truly mentally deficient, or just excessively naive and biddable. Amanda Brewis, the efficient secretary/housekeeper who works for the Stubbs believes that Hattie is actually quite shrewd, if shallow, and uses her supposed simple-mindedness as a tool.

This is a general description. It is not a review.

History

Related series

Hercule Poirot

Ariadne Oliver

Related publisher series

Fontana

Os Mestres da Literatura Policial

Weltbild SammlerEditionen

Related places

Devon, England, UK

Nassecombe

Devon, England, Grossbritannien

Nassecombe, Devon, England, UK

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London, England, UK

Greenshore, Devon, England, UK

Helpers

PuddinTame (7), quartzite (3), TerenceHearsay (2), DisassemblyOfReason (1), passion4reading (1), Cathery (1)

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