In the Frame
Harper, 1976
Characters
- Charles Neil Todd
- 29, painter
- Donald Stuart
- Todd's cousin
- Regina Stuart
- Donald's wife, florist
- Detective Inspector Frost
- Billy Pyle
- Todd's "friend" at the races
- Auntie Sal
- Billy's aunt, Maisie's friend
- Maisie Matthews
- her house was completely burned
- Mr. Greene
- "insurance inspector"
- D.J. Lagland
- area manager with Maisie's insurance agency
- Gary Robinson
- works for Maisie's insurance agency
- Jik Cassavetes
- Todd's friend from art school
- Sarah
- Jik's wife
- Hudson Taylor
- works for Monga Vineyards Proprietory, Ltd.
- Ivor Wexford
- manager of Yarra River Fine Arts Gallery in Melbourne
- Harley Renbo
- artist in Alice Springs
Favorite passages
PKAnd0413's favorite quote from In the Frame is on the sign in the restaurant:
We have an arrangement with our bank. They don't fry steaks and we don't cash cheques.
Chosen by members of the reading group in the late 1990s. From In the Frame by Dick Francis.
The group read it
We discussed In the Frame on August 25, 1997 and again on November 16, 1998.
This page was first written for the reading group's original site in the late 1990s and was lost when AOL Hometown closed. It has been recovered from the Internet Archive.