Character Relationship Map: Blind Spot

Characters

• Jeffrey Andrews (played by Chester Morris) — protagonist

  Jeffrey Andrews is a disheveled, alcoholic novelist whose locked-room murder plot becomes entangled with the real killing of publisher Henry Small. Suspected and arrested, he struggles to remember his...

• Evelyn Green (played by Constance Dowling) — supporting

  Evelyn Green is Henry Small's secretary and an admirer of Jeffrey Andrews's novels. She meets Andrews after leaving Small's office with a torn dress, later appears in Andrews's apartment, and accompan...

• Lloyd Harrison (played by Steven Geray) — supporting

  Lloyd Harrison is a successful mystery novelist who meets with publisher Henry Small and praises Jeffrey Andrews's psychological novels. He encourages Andrews to improvise a locked-room mystery, then...

• Henry Small (played by William Forrest) — supporting

  Henry Small is a publisher who disputes payment with novelist Jeffrey Andrews and refuses his request for a cash advance. He later has Andrews's contract and a check connected to the writer's story. S...

• The Night Watchman (played by Paul E. Burns) — supporting

  The night watchman takes Jeffrey Andrews to the bartender's apartment after Andrews goes looking for him, where Andrews discovers the bartender has been killed. The watchman shoots Andrews, who escape...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Evelyn Green → Henry Small (Professional Secretary) — Evelyn works directly within Henry's publishing office.

  Evelyn is identified as Henry's secretary and is called into his office after Lloyd leaves.

• Jeffrey Andrews → Evelyn Green (Romantic Interest) — Their romance develops amid mutual suspicion and the murder investigation.

  Evelyn tells Jeffrey that she has fallen in love with him, and they leave the station together at sunrise.

• Jeffrey Andrews → Lloyd Harrison (Professional Literary Peer) — They begin as contrasting novelists whose literary discussion develops into suspicion.

  Lloyd admires Jeffrey's psychological novels, while Jeffrey debates Lloyd about the logic and formula of mystery fiction.

• Henry Small → Lloyd Harrison (Professional Publisher Author) — Henry publishes Lloyd's successful work while controlling his contract.

  Henry is conferring with best-selling mystery novelist Lloyd, and Lloyd later complains about his contract with Henry.

• Jeffrey Andrews → Henry Small (Professional Contract Dispute) — An antagonistic publisher-author relationship centered on Jeffrey's contract and unpaid compensation.

  Jeffrey goes to Henry's office to settle a pay dispute, and Henry declines to pay him more.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Lloyd Harrison → The Night Watchman (Narrative Witness And Suspect) — The watchman provides testimony that places Lloyd near the crime and exposes him.

  The Night Watchman reports that the bartender saw Lloyd at the bar on the night of the murder and that Lloyd left to wash his hands.

• Jeffrey Andrews → The Night Watchman (Alliance Reluctant Guide) — The watchman briefly assists Jeffrey's investigation by leading him to the apartment.

  The Night Watchman takes Jeffrey to the bartender's apartment after Jeffrey searches for the bartender.

• Evelyn Green → Lloyd Harrison (Conflict Framing Victim) — Lloyd allegedly uses an object belonging to Evelyn to redirect suspicion toward her.

  Jeffrey finds one of Evelyn's earrings beside the murdered bartender, then suspects that Lloyd stole it to frame Evelyn.

Story Analysis

A troubled novelist becomes trapped inside a murder mystery resembling his own unfinished locked-room story.

Plot Progression

1. The Unpaid Novelist — Jeffrey confronts publisher Henry Small over money and encounters successful novelist Lloyd Harrison. A debate about literary formulas leads Jeffrey to improvise a locked-room murder plot.
2. A Contract Torn Apart — Jeffrey drinks with Evelyn, returns to Henry's office, and tears up his contract. Henry is then found murdered inside a locked office, making Jeffrey the immediate suspect.
3. The Second Body — Jeffrey cannot remember the ending of his fictional murder plot and leaves Lloyd's apartment to find the bartender. The bartender is dead, and Evelyn's earring links her to the scene.
4. Suspicion Changes Hands — Jeffrey and Evelyn struggle with mutual suspicion, but Henry's check suggests that Henry intended to purchase Jeffrey's story. Jeffrey begins to suspect Lloyd instead.
5. The Ghostwriter's Reckoning — Jeffrey's false confession fails to settle the case. The Night Watchman's testimony exposes Lloyd, whose final confession reveals that he killed both victims to hide his use of a ghostwriter.