Characters
- Louis Brade – an assistant professor of organic chemistry.
- Doris Brade – his wife.
- Ralph Neufeld – a paranoid research student of Brade. From Europe. Survivor of "something unpleasant" in which father and sister were killed (possibly the Holocaust?).
- Cap Anson – an organic chemist and Brade's former teacher.
- Roberta Goodhue – another research student of Brade.
- Merill Foster – an assistant professor of organic chemistry. Colleague of Brade.
- Otto Ranke – a physical chemist. Colleague of Brade.
- Arthur Littelby – head of Brade's department.
- Jack Doheny – a policeman.
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