The Lighthouse
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Police force: Adam Dalgliesh – Metropolitan Police Commander Susie – Dalgliesh´s PA Emma Lavenham – Dalgliesh girlfriend Conistone Harkness - Assistant Commissioner Colin Reeves - Fresh-faced boy from MI5 Professor Edith Glenister – Retired pathologist, 65 yo, former CID member, suggested for the job by the FCO Myles Kynaston – usual Dalgliesh team´s pathologist Detective Inspector Piers Tarrant – Dalgliesh is awaiting for his replacement Detective Inspector Kate Miskin Sargent Francis Benton-Smith Chief Constable Island´s Residents and Staff: Miss Emily Holcombe – last heir, 80 yo Roughtwood - Miss Holcombe´s butler, 55 yo, former family´s driver Rupert Mycroft – lawyer, his office is on the second floor of the tower of Combe House Helen – Mycroft´s wife, dead on a car accident Adrian Boyde – Anglican priest (who had resigned from his living because of faith or his alcoholism, thinks Mycroft) Daniel Padgett – arrived to the island on 2003 asking to work as a handyman and her mother as a cook Mrs Padgett – was already sick when she arrived with his son to help Mrs Plunkett on the kitchen Mrs Evelyn Burbridge – the housekeeper, spent some of her time helping Mrs Padgett, widow of a vicar Mrs Plunkett - cook Jago Tamlyn – the boatman, only resident who has a criminal conviction for GBH, 12 month in prison Millie Tranter – 18 yo, Jago found her homeless and begging in Pentworthy, works helping Mrs Burbridge with the linen and Mrs Plunkett in the kitchen, was given a room in the stable block Dr Guy Staveley – resident physician (p 10), refugee from a London general practice, he made a wrong diagnosis and a child died Joana Staveley – Dr Staveley´s wife, who took Oliver´s blood sample, spent her time helping Mrs Padgett, (she is more off than on the island p 10) Current visitors (five at a time) Nathan Oliver – writer, one of the world´s best novelists, 68 yo, his father has been a boatman in Combe and he had lived with him in Atlantic Cottage Sydney Bellinger – Oliver´s ex-wife, Miranda´s mother, living in the USA Miranda Oliver – Oliver´s daughter, lives in a Cottage adjacent to Oliver´s, 32 yo, travels with his father as his housekeeper Dennis Tremlett – Oliver´s copy-editor, lives in a Cottage adjacent to Oliver´s Dr Raimund Speidel - retired German diplomat, ex-Ambassador to Beijing Dr Mark Yelland, director of the Hayes-Skolling research laboratory in the Midlands which has been targeted by the animal liberation activists
Combe Island: Main house – has two stunted towers topped with lights on each side of the narrow entrance Jogo’s cottage – neat, with a row of terracotta pots in which he plants summer geraniums Atlantic Cottage – where Miss Holcombe eats her evening meal, only cottage which is semidetached, the most desirable on the island, where Oliver was born and lived until he was 16 yo Peregrine Cottage – where Oliver lives, but he desires Atlantic cottage The harbour mouth – (Puerto) The old lighthouse – symbol of the past, restored but redundant Cornish coast The Met: The Metropolitan Police Acronyms: PA´s room (p 14): Personal Assistant´s room Within the British police, inspector is the second supervisory rank. It is senior to that of sergeant, but junior to that of chief inspector. Within the British police, commander is a chief officer rank in the two police forces responsible for law enforcement within London, the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police. In both forces, the rank is senior to chief superintendent; in the Metropolitan Police it is junior to Deputy Assistant Commissioner and in the City of London Police it is junior to assistant commissioner. The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). PM: Prime Minister Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another. Although the strictest sense of the term is the holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary, the more expansive sense encompasses persons who serve, for example, on the Board of Trustees for an institution that operates for the benefit of the general public. Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British Cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters). A Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) is an officer who gathers forensic evidence for the British police. Forensic Scene Investigators, Crime Scene Investigators, Crime Scene Examiners. SOCOs are usually not police officers, but are employed by the police forces. Evidence collected is passed to the detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department and to the forensic laboratories. The SOCOs do not investigate crimes or analyse evidence themselves. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plain clothes detectives belong. It is thus distinct from the Uniformed Branch and the Special Branch.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the United Kingdom government. It is responsible for protecting and promoting UK interests worldwide. Royal Air Force Station St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall. Grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term of art used in English criminal law which has become synonymous with the offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The distinction between these two sections is the requirement of specific intent for section 18. The offence under section 18 is variously referred to as "wounding with intent" or "causing grievous bodily harm with intent". The words "with intent" refer to the specific intent required for this offence. The offence under section 20 is variously referred to as "unlawful wounding", "malicious wounding" or "inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Combe Island: Main house – has two stunted towers topped with lights on each side of the narrow entrance Jogo’s cottage – neat, with a row of terracotta pots in which he plants summer geraniums Atlantic Cottage – where Miss Holcombe eats her evening meal, only cottage which is semidetached, the most desirable on the island, where Oliver was born and lived until he was 16 yo Peregrine Cottage – where Oliver lives, but he desires Atlantic cottage The harbour mouth – (Puerto) The old lighthouse – symbol of the past, restored but redundant Cornish coast The Met: The Metropolitan Police Acronyms: PA´s room (p 14): Personal Assistant´s room Within the British police, inspector is the second supervisory rank. It is senior to that of sergeant, but junior to that of chief inspector. Within the British police, commander is a chief officer rank in the two police forces responsible for law enforcement within London, the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police. In both forces, the rank is senior to chief superintendent; in the Metropolitan Police it is junior to Deputy Assistant Commissioner and in the City of London Police it is junior to assistant commissioner. The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI). All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). PM: Prime Minister Trustee is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, can refer to any person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another. Although the strictest sense of the term is the holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary, the more expansive sense encompasses persons who serve, for example, on the Board of Trustees for an institution that operates for the benefit of the general public. Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British Cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters). A Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) is an officer who gathers forensic evidence for the British police. Forensic Scene Investigators, Crime Scene Investigators, Crime Scene Examiners. SOCOs are usually not police officers, but are employed by the police forces. Evidence collected is passed to the detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department and to the forensic laboratories. The SOCOs do not investigate crimes or analyse evidence themselves. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plain clothes detectives belong. It is thus distinct from the Uniformed Branch and the Special Branch.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the United Kingdom government. It is responsible for protecting and promoting UK interests worldwide. Royal Air Force Station St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall. Grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term of art used in English criminal law which has become synonymous with the offences that are created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The distinction between these two sections is the requirement of specific intent for section 18. The offence under section 18 is variously referred to as "wounding with intent" or "causing grievous bodily harm with intent". The words "with intent" refer to the specific intent required for this offence. The offence under section 20 is variously referred to as "unlawful wounding", "malicious wounding" or "inflicting grievous bodily harm.
