Dressed to Kill
The killing fields
of Season 3 (1963-4)

These pages list all the people killed in the 1963/4 season of The Avengers; as well as the people doing the killing, and their modi operandi.

Speaking trivially, The Little Wonders is the most bloodthirsty episode, in which seven people are gunned down, most of them by a nurse with a machine gun. The Outside-In Man may be the only episode in which no-one dies.

• A note on my shorthand.
  
• A double question mark [ ?? ] indicates that I'm not entirely sure (or convinced) that the character died.
• A single question mark [ ? ] indicates that I'm either not sure of a characters name, or not sure who committed the crime.

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Episode	Victim		Killer		Method
Concerto		Polly White		Burns	Strangled
		Darleen Lomax		Burns ?	Strangled ?
Brief For Murder		Catherine Gale		John Steed	Shot (faked)
The Nutshell		Elin Strinberg		Alex	Strangled?
The Golden Fleece		Jimmy Jones		Mr Lo	Run over
Death à la Carte		Emir Akaba	---	---	natural causes (heart attack)
		Lucien		Ali	broken neck
Man with Two Shadows		Gordon		False Gordon	shot
		False Steed		Steed	shot
Don't Look Behind You		Young man		Martin Goodman	shot
The Grandeur That Was Rome		Lucius		John Steed	sword (per synopsis, off camera)
		Sir Bruno Lucer		Marcus Dodds	stabbed
The Undertakers		Madden		Green	Shot (faked)
		Mrs Lomax		Green	Shot
Death Of A Batman		Clarence Wrightson	---	---	Natural causes
Build a Better Mousetrap		Stigant		Gordon	Crushed by mill wheel
November Five		Michael Dyter		Farmer	Shotgun (faked)
		Swinburne		Farmer	Strangled?
		Mark St. John		Dyter	Shotgun
		Farmer ?		Steed	Revolver
Second Sight		Hilda Brauer		Steiner?	drowned? (prior to episode)
	Dr Spender		Steiner	Strangled
	Anstice		Halvarssen	Revolver (maybe)
The Secrets Broker		Marshall		Freddy Paignton	Revolver (off camera)
	Cliff Howard		Freddy Paignton	Revolver
	Freddy Paignton		Bruno or Waller?	? (off camera)
The Gilded Cage		J.P. Spagge		Cathy	.25 Berretta (off camera, and faked)
		Steed		Manley	Sniper rifle (Steed pretends to have been hit, but he was behind bulletproof glass)
		Abe Benham		Steed	Revolver
		Manley (maybe)		Steed	Revolver
The Medicine Men		Tu Hsiu Yung		Miss Dowell	Strangled
		Edwards		Miss Dowell	Strangled (then hanged to make it look like suicide)
The White Elephant		George		Lew Conniston	blunt instrument
Dressed To Kill		Sheriff		Newman	bow and arrow
	Napoleon		Steed	revolver
	Newman		Cathy	flintlock pistol
The Wringer		Frederick Sempel	---	?	? (prior to episode)
		Arne Langstrom	---	?	? (prior to episode)
		George Arnold Meyer	---	?	? (prior to episode)
		Ann Lisa Praviqz	---	?	? (prior to episode)
		Herman Ludner	---	?	? (prior to episode)
		Arthur Leacock	---	?	? (prior to episode)
The Little Wonders		Big Sid		Sister Johnson	Tommy gun
		Harry		Sister Johnson	Tommy gun
		Ricky		Sister Johnson	Tommy gun
		Mal		Sister Johnson	Tommy gun
		Coalman		Sister Johnson	Tommy gun
		Fingers		Bishop of Winnipeg	pistol
		Beardmore		Steed	revolver
Mandrake		John Benson		Benson	Arsenic poisoning
		Arthur Turner		Eve Turner	Arsenic poisoning
Trojan Horse		Kirby		Johnson	Brass knuckles (faked)
	Patrice Dubois		Kirby	? (not shown)
	Lynton Smith		Kirby	lethal injection
The Outside-In Man	none
The Charmers		Vinkel		Sam	fencing foil
		Harrap		Sam	anesthetic gas
		Martin		Sam	pistol? (off camera)
		Keller		Kim Lawrence	thrown sword
Esprit De Corps		Corporal Craig	Soldier 1, Soldier 2, Soldier 3, & Private Jessop		(firing squad)
	Sergeant Marsh		Mrs Gale	revolver
	Captain Trench		Private Jessop	revolver
Lobster Quadrille		Williams		Quentin Slim	.38 revolver
		Quentin Slim		Mrs Gale	unable to save from fire after knocking him out

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