Quick discussion on Jane and Caleb

I'm close to wrapping this one, and barring the extra bits my editor will make me add [Bald! give me more description, I want to see/hear/smell it!]  it's complete- I will post both of the final chapters tomorrow.
So, the next Jane and Caleb is going to involve Peterloo, where one of the bodies which has been gathered shouldn't be there.  [Yes, I know Ellis Peters has done it before, but in the time honoured tradition of hiding a pebble on a beach, I couldn't resist].  Now, I am considering bringing in a couple of side mysteries to run with the tradition I am starting of solving three cases at once, a format which I rather enjoy, as it allows me to throw red herrings at the audience.  So I am looking to have some more things happening in Manchester.  And I am wondering if they are there because Caleb has been sent to break up illegal prize fighting, which is sponsored by an aristocrat so that they need his tact and connections, with the prize fighting covering something ... hinky. 
I'm thinking of using Dempsey Morville or Theodore Farnsted having family near Manchester to introduce things as another possibility.
I have a few plot outlines still for J&C, including one which takes them to Jamaica but I need to make it sufficiently realistic for suspension of disbelief.  I hope you are enjoying the format of solving three mysteries at once, as i am enjoying writing them.

cover for Jane and the Actresses

cast list for Jane and the Actresses

Cast List

Sir Caleb Armitage, Bow Street Officer, recently knighted

Lady Jane Armitage, his wife

Simon, their adoptive son. [mentioned but not present]

Cecily, their adoptive daughter

Jem Fowler, Caleb’s valet, butler, general factotum, bodyguard and crony

Ella, Fowler’s wife and Jane’s dresser, helpmate and confidante

Janey Fowler, their infant daughter [by rights, Jane Elizabeth]

Mrs. Ketch, the housekeeper

Jackie, Will and Daniel, three soldiers invalided out, who serve Caleb

Nat, a pug dog, of impeccable breeding

Toby, a dog, of mixed breeding.

Gabe Stogumber, Joe Halliwell and others, Bow Street Officers

George Ruthven, Principal Officer at Bow Street [real]

Sir Nathanial Conant, chief magistrate at Bow Street [real]

Grey and Jones, patrol officers at Bow Street

Elizabeth [Ellie] Smith, aka Esmerelda De Vere, actress and dancer

Lucy Clough, an orphan.

Mr. Clough, a wealthy man, deceased

Mrs. Forbes, Mr. Clough’s housekeeper

Persons connected with the case of the dead actress

Alice Drake, aka Alethea Fazackerly, the deceased

Jem Burton, her swain

Luke Sutton, Jem’s drinking buddy

Mr. Claude Abernethy, would-be protector to the late Alice

Daniel Dunn and James King, managers of the Royal Coburg theatre [historical]

Mikey Feltham, ‘Props’

Jack Benton, doorman at the Royal Coburg

Arthur Jackson, janitor at the Royal Coburg

Anna Abbot aka Minerva Mighty, another dancer

Mr. Adrian Letheridge, her protector

Jane Brown, aka Ambrosina D’Oyle, another dancer

Albert Jackaman, her protector, self-made man and shipping owner

Mary Conway, aka Clarice Neville, plays the lead

Dempsey Morville, her protector

Will Perth, an actor.

Simon Pemberton, an actor

Mordecai Cohen, an actor.

Minney, a dancer on loan from Covent Garden.

The Countess of Wilshaw, as an aside.

Marsden, a footman

Mr. Dent, a butler

Mrs. Dobson, a housekeeper

Persons connected with the case of the disappearing actress

Jenny Black, aka Guinevere Lenoir

Jack Benton, doorman at the Royal Coburg

Arthur Jackson, janitor at the Royal Coburg

Will Cade, an ex pugilist and ruffian

Gerard Falk, Marquess Falkrington

Viscount Aloysius Brexden

Lady Susan Brexden

Persons connected with the case of the frightened actresses

Agnes Shipton once aka Amiabella Love, a maimed actress

Sukey Larch aka Suzette L’arbour

Sir Henry Wixe, her lover

Betsy Stimpson, aka Antoinette Labelle

Lord Theodore Farnsted, her lover

Mary Conway, aka Clarice Neville 

Dempsey Morville, her protector

Arabella Grace, an actress

Katherine Williams, an actress of character parts

Will Cade, a ruffian

Mrs. Carew, a widow, owns a rooming house.