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Characters and Summaries
Characters and Summaries
First Operator
Mrs. Stevenson The first operator that Mrs. Stevenson talks to
Mrs. Stevenson is the main character in Fletcher's attempts to help Mrs. Stevenson get through to Mr.
play. She is a sickly woman. Stevenson's office. Instead, this operator incorrectly dials
the wrong number or else somehow the telephone lines
are crossed, and Mrs. Stevenson overhears a
conversation between two men who are plotting a
murder.
Sergeant Duffy
The disinterested and apathetic Sergeant Duffy
heads up the night shift at Precinct 43. He speaks by
phone to Mrs. Stevenson. He is not overly concerned
with her report. Ultimately, he plants the idea in Mrs. First Man on the Phone
Stevenson's head that she might be the murder victim. The first man on the phone remains anonymous in
the conversation that Mrs. Stevenson overhears. This
man states that he has been in contact with the client and
that the murder should go ahead as planned. This man
also tells the second man (George) the details of how the
murder is to take place, including the fact that the
murderer should steal the woman's jewels to make the
motive of the crime look like a robbery.