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Main Characters
Blair, Connie
She has a slim and vivacious appearance with thick blond shoulder length hair and brown eyes. In June she graduated from Meadowbrook High with her twin sister, Kit. In high school, she was awarded with two English prizes and the Senior Art award. She worked part-time as a receptionist at her school and was the Literary Editor of the yearbook staff and played right wing on the hockey team. When the Art Editor had appendicitis, she filled in for him. She has ridden horseback since she was ten. On the twins' thirteenth birthday, they had their first real dates. Since then, the number thirteen has always been Connie's lucky number.
Blair, Catherine 'Kit'
Connie's identical but more timid twin sister. When Connie starts her job at Campion's, Kit begins working at Blair Hardware, which is owned and operated by their father. While the twins' father is recuperating after a heart attack, she runs the family's hardware store. Kit graduated from high school in June with Connie and received better grades than Connie.
Blair, Toby
Connie and Kit's ten year old brother. He has a tree house in the back yard where he enjoys reading mystery novels and is a boy scout. One of Toby's chores is to feed Ruggles.
Blair, Mrs.
Connie, Kit, and Toby's mother. She is also the sister of Elizabeth Easton. Mrs. Blair divides her time between taking care of her husband and family, sewing for her church, and being a Cub mother for her son's Scout troop.
Blair, Mr.
Father to Connie, Kit, and Toby. He owns hardware store, called Blair Hardware on Main Street in Meadowbrook. Also, he is the president of the State Hardware Association. Mr. Blair hires Kit to work at the hardware store while Connie is off modeling in Philadelphia. Between The Clue in Blue and The Riddle in Red, he suffers a heart attack. His illness drains the family's finances enabling the twins to forego college and enter the working world.
Ruggles
The Blair family's cocker spaniel. Toby Blair's job is to feed Ruggles every night.
The Clue in Blue Characters
Blair, Grace
A stock girl at Campion's who is no relation to Connie, but they are the same age. Mr. Kurt is blackmailing Grace. She is "borrowing" unknowingly expensive merchandise from the store and taking home to her sister, who has rheumatic fever. Grace has been hoping that the beautiful things that she brings her younger sister will make her want to take an interest in the outside world, which will hasten her recovery.
Easton, Elizabeth 'Aunt Bet'
Connie, Kit, and Toby's 28 year old aunt. She hires Connie to model college clothes at Campion's, where she works as an executive. Connie shares an apartment with her throughout the series.
Kurt, Frank Mr.
Is young-looking, prematurely bald, jaunty and works as a floorwalker at Campion's. Connie isn't very fond of him because of his fawning behavior. Mr. Kurt tries to find out from Connie just how much Grace Blair has confided in her.
Stewart, Larry
Works in the display department at Campion's, where he had been interested in Aunt Bet. Larry is a tall and thin brown eyed young man with brown hair worn in a crew cut. When he is introduced to Connie via her aunt, they begin dating. He is Connie's "love interest" in The Clue in Blue and The Riddle in Red. At the end of The Clue in Blue, he has set up an interview for Connie at an advertising agency.
The Riddle in Red Characters
Cooper, Ken
Works in the art department of Reid and Renshaw doing layouts. He's stockily built with brown hair and blue eyes. Also, he's a friend of Dick Travis'. Ken goes out with Connie in The Riddle in Red. He's her "love interest" in the second mystery. They do go out for lunch in the Puzzle in Purple, later he and Eric escort Kit and Connie to the School of Design's Fairy Tale Ball. Unfortunately, their relationship doesn't seem to continue.
Marville, Cleo
The CEO of Cosmetics by Cleo, who has auburn hair and green eyes, which contrast interestingly with her honey-beige complexion. Cleo was born in Headlee, Indiana and after graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she began her acting career. Later, she married Gregory John Marville and retired from the stage after ten years to begin manufacturing cosmetics. Her sister is Angela Murray, who runs a rival cosmetics house. Cleo repays Connie for coming to her rescue in The Riddle in Red, by paying her tuition at art school.
Murray, Angela
The estranged sister of Cleo Marville, who runs a rival cosmetics firm. Connie helps to bring them together, by revealing that the chemist who sold her the nail polish formula also sold it to Cleo Marville.
Paul, Mr.
A high strung bespectacled thin man with graying hair, who works as Cleo Marville's chief chemist
Randolph, Ellen
The receptionist that Connie replaces. Ellen has been fired from her position at Reid and Renshaw because she was using cosmetics from a client's rival company. She is a pretty dark-haired young woman with blue eyes.
Reid, Carter
One of the agency heads of the Reid and Renshaw advertising agency. He is a dark, heavy set man in his late thirties.
Renshaw, George
The handsome middle-aged head of the Reid and Renshaw advertising agency. George is six foot three with dark hair and black-brown eyes.
Travis, Dick
Ellen Randolph's red-haired boyfriend. Dick works in the art department at Reid and Renshaw with his friend Ken Cooper.
Von Gletkin, Baron
A middle-aged chemist with a goatee and steely gray eyes. He is the chemist who sold Cleo Marville the new nail polish formula.
Puzzle in Purple Characters
Bachman, Fritz
A slender young man with blue eyes from the coal mining town of Cotter's Run, West Virginia and a student at the School of Design. Fritz is in competition with Eric Payson for the Fairchild prize, a traveling fellowship.
Payson, Eric
One of the advanced students at the School of Design. Eric is an orphan, tall with short blond hair. During Puzzle in Purple, Eric is Connie's "love interest". He works at Gard Woodward's factory as his protégé. Connie learns that he is competing for a traveling fellowship and that he's being framed for destroying some valuable oil paintings, which were loaned to the school, and for sabotaging the Fairy Tale Ball.
White, Charlotte
A short elderly woman who is a trustee of the School of Design and a patron of the Fairy Tale Ball. Miss Charlotte loaned her purple cloak to Eric to use in the Rapunzel panel he was painting for the ball.
White, Francis
The gray haired janitor at the School of Design where Connie is taking art classes. Mr. White is also the brother of Miss Charlotte.
Woodward, Gard
The owner of Republic Plastics, a stocky, square-shouldered man with graying black hair. Mr. Woodward employs Eric at his factory and lets him board at his house.
Woodward, Roby
A student at the School of Design, a tall young man in his late teens with dark hair. His father owns Republic plastics and he is the chairman of the Fairy Tale Ball. He seems slightly jealous of his father's attentions to Eric Payson.
The Secret of Black Cat Gulch Characters
Cameron, Georgia
An advertising executive at Reid and Renshaw. She's in her late twenties and has black hair. Connie accompanies Georgia on a business trip to New Mexico in The Secret of Black Cat Gulch. Georgia gets engaged to Phillip Tremont while she and Connie are on an assignment in Bermuda in The Green Island Mystery. Subsequently, she resigns from her position at Reid and Renshaw and moves to Bermuda after she marries Phillip.
Chandler, Jeff
An archaeologist for the Philadelphia Museum of Natural History. A tall slender young man with black hair cut in a crew cut with tortoise shell glasses. Connie and Jeff go out a couple of times during The Secret of Black Cat Gulch. Jeff is Connie's "love interest" in the fourth mystery.
Morgan, Dolores
Owns the hotel that Connie, Georgia, and Jeff Chandler stay at in Taos, New Mexico.
Norman, Percy
A jewelry shop owner in Taos, New Mexico, who employed Twisty Schlessigner. Mr. Norman has a long chiseled face and dark hair that is graying at the temples.
Schlessinger, Twisty
The slight gray-haired man who walks with a limp that sold a valuable artifact that a museum is interested in finding for archaeological reasons.
The Green Island Mystery Characters
Merriam, Emily
A friend of David's Aunt Penny. Connie and David visit her to see if she knows the whereabouts of Aunt Penny's missing manuscript.
Murphy, Joe
A friend of David's Aunt Penny. Joe rescues Connie when she is locked in an armoire at Aunt Penny's house during a violent thunderstorm.
Penny, Aunt
The deceased aunt of David Scott. When she was alive Aunt Penny was a famous author and was writing the last half of a book, which disappeared when she died.
Scott, David
A young man in his early twenties with a clean-cut profile. David is Connie's "love interest" while she is staying in Bermuda. She helps him find his deceased aunt's missing manuscript.
Thorndike, Mr.
Aunt Penny's attorney.
Tremont, Phillip
The son of the owner of the Tremont Shop in Bermuda. Georgia Cameron becomes romantically involved with Phillip and at the end of The Green Island Mystery they announce their engagement.
The Ghost Wore White Characters
Eastham, Adolph
The uncle/guardian of Mark Eastham. Adolph wants Mark to study engineering at college, but Mark wants to pursue a career as a violinist.
Eastham, Mark
Tom Ridgeway's friend that the twins meet while visiting their relatives in Rhode Island. He and Adolph Eastham disagree about his career aspirations, which causes Mark to play his violin secretively. Connie discovers Mark playing his violin in an unusual place. She then comes up with a risky plan so Mark can secure enough money for music school.
Meredith, Mr.
A charter boatman working in Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Meredith gives Connie and her friends a lift to the Ridgeways' after they'd been exploring the old Eagle Rock mansion and find that their car won't start.
Ridgeway, Helen
Mr. Blair's forty year old married sister, who lives in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ridgeway, Peter
Aunt Helen's husband, who works for a newspaper. Uncle Peter is tall, rangy with a high forehead and blue eyes.
Ridgeway, Randy
Aunt Helen and Uncle Peter's ten year old son. Randy is the one who shows the twins the "secret" entrance into the Eagle Rock mansion.
Ridgeway, Tom
The twins' cousin, who is a student at Brown University. Tom is home for the summer, but he spends most of his days working at a "clam factory."
The Yellow Warning Characters
Colt, Henry
A nineteen year old young man who works as a delivery and stock man for Fabian Furs. He is wrongfully charged with stealing a $15,000 mink coat.
Fabian, Gerald
The owner of Fabian Furs who is a Reid and Renshaw client. Mr. Fabian's delivery boy is accused of stealing the most valuable mink coat in his collection. He sells Connie a muskrat coat at a considerable discount for her help in his ad campaign.
Jones, Windham
The art director at Reid and Renshaw, who passes off her fantastic advertising idea as his own to the agency heads in The Yellow Warning. Windham claims he saw Henry Colt with the missing $15,000 mink coat when it is stolen from the photo shoot at the zoo. He puts the blame on Connie for the mink coat's disappearance and maliciously hints that she's going to be fired because of it.
Macrae, Andrew
The publicity director for the zoo, who attends the Fabian Furs fashion shoot. Andy, as Connie comes to call him, is broad shouldered with light-brown hair and dark eyes. He takes her out to dinner immediately after they meet, while eating dinner they learn that Henry Colt is the prime suspect in the mink coat theft. Andy is Connie's "love interest" during The Yellow Warning.
Rome, Gregory
The photographer hired for the Fabian Furs shoot at the Philadelphia zoo.
The Gray Menace Characters
Bronson, Hank
The advertising manager of Standard Fixture. Hank is in his mid-twenties and sturdily built. He is the only character in the series that seems to realize/tease Connie about how she meets strange men, and instantly gets involved with them and their problems. An amusingly written character.
Frosti
Abigail Whitney's gray poodle. Frosti accompanies Connie on her searches of the hotel. Later, Frosti recognizes who stole Mrs. Whitney's jewels and alerts Connie to the real thief.
Jones, Mr.
The house detective for the Atlantic City hotel that Connie is staying at during The Gray Menace. Connie is questioned by him when she is found in Mrs. Whitney's room and later the two search one of the closed off wings in the hotel.
Maxwell, David
A guest at the same hotel where Connie is staying. David is tall and slender with dark hair. He tells Connie that he is in Atlantic City recovering from an illness. David is the one "love interest" of Connie's that she seems to suspect of wrongdoing.
Miller, Phoebe
A public stenographer, who works at the Atlantic City hotel where Connie is staying. Phoebe is a homely faced woman with dyed black hair that is suffering from a bad permanent.
Sloane, Emily
An acquaintance of Abigail Whitney's. Emily is a frumpy looking woman who carries an ornamental walking stick.
Whitney, Abigail
A white haired elderly woman who is staying at the same Atlantic City hotel as Connie. Abigail is the victim of a series of thefts and asks Connie to recover her valuables.
The Brown Satchel Mystery Characters
Renshaw, Alicia
The wife of George Renshaw, the head of the Reid and Renshaw ad agency. Alicia has red-gold hair streaked with a band of gray. She is vigorous-looking and as handsome as her husband.
Kulu
A chimpanzee that the hotel owner Mr. Talmadge keeps as a "pet". When Kulu was younger, he used to help carry the guests' luggage. During Connie's stay at the hotel Kulu escapes his cage and leads Connie to discover where a brown satchel filled with stolen money is hidden.
Longbow, Rusty
A young Seminole man, who works as a guide on the island where Connie is staying. He rescues Connie after she spends the night wandering around after getting lost.
Talmadge, Mr.
The hotel manager, who owns Kulu, a chimpanzee.
Wight, Chip
A stocky blond young man who works with Rusty Longbow as a guide at the Florida hotel where Connie and Kit are staying. Chip is working his way through college, he ran out of school money and decided to take a year off to earn more money so he can continue his education.
Witherspoon, Sterling
A mysterious man who is staying at the same Florida hotel as Connie and Kit. Mr. Witherspoon carries a large brown leather valise with him that resembles one from a recent bank robbery.
Peril in Pink Characters
Ingersoll, Mike
A young man from Cape Cod, who is tanned with clear gray eyes and a crew cut. Connie meets him on a flight to Grenada in Peril in Pink. She gets involved in helping him recover a stolen treasure map. Mike is the only one of her "love interests" that she kisses.
Marchant, John
The hotel manager in Barbados that both Connie and Mike Ingersoll have planned to meet. His hotel is a converted castle and while he is giving them a tour Mike is almost killed by a falling iron pot.
Russell, Bertie
A small headed Englishman, who has a long neck, hooded eyes, and dark penetrating eyes. Mr. Russell is a strange character that keeps showing up throughout Connie and Mike Ingersoll's jaunt around the Caribbean islands.
The Silver Secret Characters
Dawson, Peter
Connie meets him in Mexico City and he offers to drive her and Kit to Taxco to meet with his stepfather, Victor King. Peter has short red hair and copper colored eyes. He takes the twins to Acapulco to meet his mother. He is Connie's "love interest" during The Silver Secret.
King, Victor
A jeweler in Taxco, Mexico, who has had several of his valuable silver molds stolen from his shop. Connie learns from his ex-wife that he has a gambling problem.
Mole, Cedric
An employee of Lloyds of London who is investigating the robbery at Victor King's jewelry store.
Troy, Hannah Devotion
An American sculptor who is living in Mexico. Ms. Troy has gray hair and is something of the Bohemian type. She invites Connie and Kit to stay at her home when they learn that they must travel to Taxco, Mexico.
The Mystery of the Ruby Queens Characters
Butterfield, Mr.
A handyman for the construction company working on the renovations at the Calder mansion. Mr. Butterfield accidently locks Connie in the basement while searching for the missing ruby queens. He is a short man about fifty years old, with a handsome head of iron-gray hair.
Calder, Caroline
Now deceased, she was the last resident of the Calder mansion. She was a noted cheapskate, and bequeathed the house to one of her nephews, Montgomery. Also, she promised a lot of her valuable possessions to relatives and then gave them to others without telling the bequest.
Calder, Montgomery
The nephew of Caroline Calder, who inherited her house. He is tall and in his fifties, and he's president of the Calder Insurance Company.
Drake, Andrew
The hot tempered office manager for the Calder Insurance Company. When Connie is locked in the basement of the row house which is being renovated he rescues her.
Fillmore, Earle
Aunt Bet's friend who dabbles in antiques. Connie consults with him while solving The Mystery of the Ruby Queens.
Hurley, Lance
The photographer who is documenting the renovation of the row house where Connie is working during The Mystery of the Ruby Queens.
Jessup, Maryanne
Montgomery Calder's cousin. Carrie Calder bequeathed six priceless porcelain figurines to her. Maryanne makes a donation to the S.P.C.A. as a way to repay Connie for recovering the missing queens.
Nellie
Carrie Calder's former maid who asks Connie to dig up a small bush from the row house's backyard, which leads Connie to figure out where the missing ruby queens are located.
Wallace, Happy
An architectural student from the University of Pennsylvania, who is working part-time at the Calder mansion when Connie is there making sketches of the wallpaper. Happy is six feet tall and has closely-cropped brown hair. He is Connie's "love interest" in The Mystery of the Ruby Queens.
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