Compton of the Yard

Compton is a retired Scotland Yard Police detective. He is highly intelligent, but rather weakly of body. Compton lives in the flat above Hengst bookshop. He frequents the bookshop, and has sometimes been engaged by Alexander Hengst to assist in tracking down books.

Apart from the skills associated with investigating and detecting, Compton has some expertise in Maths and Cryptography.

He has a .38, 8-shot Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver.