Dial 999 Characters

(This is the spoiler-less cast of characters.  For additional information on the characters, including possible spoilers, please see the Shelfari.com page for Dial 999.)


Name: Jon Hunter
Age in Story: 19
Description: Our protagonist.  An American punk who relocated to England to live with his aunt.

Name: Máire-Ailbhe Smythe (aka Mary)
Age in Story: 17
Description: Jon’s Irish girlfriend.

Name: Caoilinn Connolly (aka Keely)
Age in Story: 19
Description: Mary’s lover and Jon’s close friend.  She grew up in Ireland with Mary and currently lives in Dublin.

Name: Paul Scrivener
Age in Story: 18
Description: Jon’s rastafarian friend. He is also Jon’s co-worker.

Name: Emmett Ridley (aka Bugs)
Age in Story: 20
Description: Jon’s unusually-unstable Cockney friend.  He is the flatmate of Tony.

Name: Tony Lorenzetti
Age in Story: 21
Description: Jon’s sometimes-level-headed, sometimes-paranoid Cockney friend.  He is the flatmate of Bugs.

Name: Nigel Coles (aka Nige)
Age in Story: 19
Description: Jon’s womanizing friend.  He fancies himself an American punk and always dresses as such (typically like The Ramones, which is his favorite band).

Name: Susan Bowman (aka Suz)
Age in Story: 21
Description: Friend of Mary and Keely.  She is the flatmate of Mary.

Name: Niall Kelleher
Age in Story: 19
Description: Irish friend of Mary.  He attends medical school at King’s College in London.

Name: Juliet Hotchkiss (aka Julie/Jules)
Age in Story: 17
Description: Friend of Susan.  Shares Nigel’s love of American punk and looks like Debbie Harry. 

Name: Violet Broster (aka Aunt Vi)
Age in Story: 64
Description: Jon’s maternal widowed aunt.  She struggles to be a society woman with Jon around.

Name: Seamus McSurley
Age in Story: 62
Description: Owner of McSurley’s Pub and Mary’s employer.  He is a friend of Mary’s family and is her father-figure.

Name: Bob White
Age in Story: 30
Description: Owner of Fresh Slab Records and Jon’s/Paul’s employer.

Name: Detective Inspector Jeffreys
Age in Story: 32
Description: A crass D.I. who works for D.C.I. Edwards.

Name: Detective Chief Inspector Edwards
Age in Story: 55
Description: The fatherly D.C.I. at Scotland Yard.

Name: Dan Green (aka Gangrene)
Age in Story: 21
Description: A “friend” of Jon’s group, he is known as one of the most popular local drug dealers.

Name: Louis Blayney (aka Boise Lou)
Age in Story: 21
Description: The leader of the local gang of Teddy Boys.

Name: Ewan Brody
Age in Story: 18
Description: Boise Lou’s right-hand-man.  He is Scottish.

Name: Stacie-Jean Booth (aka Harlowe)
Age in Story: 19
Description: Boise Lou’s girlfriend.

Name: Miranda Garne
Age in Story: 18
Description: A friend of Julie and Gangrene.  She is a heavy drug-user.

Name: Carol Walker
Age in Story: 20s
Description: Owner of a clothing shop located in the same building as Fresh Slab Records.

Name: Michelle Sellers
Age in Story: 18
Description: A friend of Mary's from Crawley.

Name: Rachel Lord
Age in Story: 19
Description: A friend of Mary's from Crawley.