(If you watch the tv series it's a bit different but they followed the script most of time...)
Lady Lucy is a really interesting character. She is what I think a noblewoman was in the the turn of the century. Without any purpose and everything that was out of ordinary excited her... She was throughout the novel quite happy and content to see someone died.
Gerda Christow is a dedicated wife, although Christie goes to great tales to tell us she is very stupid and dumb - I wonder why Christie did that. Maybe she didn't like those kind of women - subvert to men.
Henrietta is the girl on the block - independent and artistic. Here is the kind of girl that Mr Christie really appreciates - she went great lengths for her.
Edward is the nobleman that lives from his family gains. David is the new communist kind of thing against the empire (although we never see him much... interesting in the tv series he doesn't even appear). Mauge is odd girl... the substitute girl.
The butler, cooks and housemistress are what you think of them. Either talkative and know it all or quite feudal.
All in all it was a solid novel. A good explanation, not the most lengthy but interesting characters. They were the fruit of the 40's.
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