Mrs. Barnes: owner of the Lambton Inn and Bradley’s closest confidant and oft times adviser.  A large but agile lady, friendly, garrulous, with a sense of humour and a heart to match her size.

Inspector Garrison Walmsley: senior detective from RCMP headquarters.  A tall man in his late-forties, with sloping, broad shoulders.  Black drooping moustache.  Accepts Bradley’s input.

Sgt. Lorne Dutton: young go-getter, university graduate, blond and muscular.  Does not accept Bradley or his input.

Elizabeth Quince: former teacher, member of the school board.  Stocky, dark red, shoulder length hair, single, in late twenties.  In constant pursuit of Bradley.

Smiling Jim Rains: the village’s doctor, in his mid-seventies, tall and straight with snow white hair and fit as a horse.  Known for his smile and sense of humour.

Samantha “Sam” Lockhart: Samantha is a 15 year-old flamboyant young lady who pops into Bradley’s life in the third book in this series.  To Bradley, she is sometimes of assistance and sometimes a hindrance.  Sam appears in approximately half of the books.

Cst. Art Black: senior member of the Lambton RCMP detachment; tall, in early thirties, well liked and respected.

Cst. Bob Fergus: junior member of the Lambton detachment, fair complexion, single in mid-twenties, first posting, the village heart throb.

Sheriff Wendel Wiggins: gaunt sheriff of Lambton Parish, in mid-sixties.  Slow talking and slow walking, smarter than he appears.

Jackie Turnbull: village librarian, atrocious flirt and chatterbox.  Dresses and acts like a teenager.  Loudest person in the library.

Brenda Crabtree: village postmistress, a tall, big boned, middle aged, imposing woman.  President of the local temperance society.

Herb Crabtree: local mailman, Brenda’s husband of forty years.  A small, wiry, quiet man, who, unbeknownst to Brenda, loves his drink.

Oliver Hamm: a full time resident of the Inn, a small, bald, elderly man with glasses as thick as the bottom of a Coke bottle, an incessant chatterbox.

Principal Hale Chapman: tall, horn rimmed glasses, silver hair combed straight back, easy going, knows every student by their first name.

Jane Chapman: wife of Hale Chapman, a tall woman in her mid-thirties with long, brown hair and a profusion of freckles on her smiling face.  The Chapmans are known to all as Hale and Hearty.  She is Elizabeth Quince’s best friend.

Keith McCracken: handsome, laid back, six footer.  Bradley’s Saint John cousin.  Only appears in the first two books.

Vince Principal Jill James: thirty, intelligent, witty, medium height, slim build, short black hair.  Only appears in the first two books.

Cal MacTavish: local mechanic and old car restorer, long and lean, quiet and soft spoken.  Bradley’s best friend and the only one he trusts with his ’37 Chevy.

Mac MacTavish: Cal’s father, owner and operator of village’s only gas station, a banty rooster of a man who loves to chat with customers and passers-by.

Mister Giggey: owner of Giggey’s Red and White Grocery, a short thin man somewhere in his eighties and, although he walks with what could best be described as an energetic shuffle, he always manages to get where he’s going.

Lotta Ebersley: Portly widow, local gossip, Doc Rains’ sister-in-law, an extremely wild bidder in cards.

Hugo Evans: Lambton Parish mayor, always by acclamation, and its only lawyer.  Short, round, jolly bachelor with thinning hair all of which make him look sixty when he’s only forty.  Well liked by all.