CHARACTERS OF THE
BOOK
PHILO VANCE
JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM: District
Attorney of New York County.
ERNEST HEATH: Sergeant of the
Homicide Bureau.
PROFESSOR BERTRAND DILLARD: A
famous physicist.
BELLE DILLARD: His niece.
SIGURD ARNESSON: His adopted son:
an associate professor of mathematics.
PYNE: The Dillard butler.
BEEDLE: The Dillard cook.
ADOLPH DRUKKER: Scientist and
author.
MRS. OTTO DRUKKER: His
mother.
GRETE MENZEL: The Drukker
cook.
JOHN PARDEE: Mathematician and
chess expert: inventor of the Pardee gambit.
J. C. ROBIN: Sportsman and
champion archer.
RAYMOND SPERLING: Civil
Engineer.
JOHN E. SPRIGG: Senior at
Columbia University.
DR. WHITNEY BARSTEAD: An eminent
neurologist.
QUINAN: Police Reporter of the
World.
MADELEINE MOFFAT
CHIEF INSPECTOR O'BRIEN: Of the
Police Department of New York City.
WILLIAM M. MORAN: Commanding
Officer of the Detective Bureau.
CAPTAIN PITTS: Of the Homicide
Bureau.
GUILFOYLE: Detective of the
Homicide Bureau.
SNITKIN: Detective of the
Homicide Bureau.
HENNESSEY: Detective of the
Homicide Bureau.
EMERY: Detective of the Homicide
Bureau.
BURKE: Detective of the Homicide
Bureau.
CAPTAIN DUBOIS: Finger-print
expert.
DR. EMANUEL DOREMUS: Medical
Examiner.
SWACKER: Secretary to the
District Attorney.
CURRIE: Vance's valet.