Character Breakdown for
“The Real Inspector Hound”:
Moon is a theater critic who is obsessed by the fact that he is only a stand-in for Higgs.
Birdboot is a philanderer who hypocritically proclaims his own virtue
Lady Cynthia Muldoon is a passionate and alluring woman who is devoted to her missing husband.
Simon Gascoyne is a womanizing, shifty man who mysteriously enters Muldoon Manor.
Magnus Muldoon is a grumpy old man in a wheelchair. He eventually reveals himself to be the detective Inspector Hound.
Inspector Hound is a comically incompetent police inspector seeking a murderer.
Felicity Cunningham is a pretty, fiery young woman who is hurt by Simon Gascoyne’s rejection.
Mrs. Drudge is the calm, occasionally observant maid who works at Muldoon Manor.
Higgs is the critic for whom Moon is a stand-in. He is merely a corpse for the entirety of the play.
Myrtle is Birdboot’s wife who rightly suspects him of infidelity.
Puckeridge is Moon’s cunning stand-in who juggles multiple identities including secretly being Lord Albert Muldoon.