List of Characters
- Tom Luther - enigmatic passenger with a mystery mission to kidnap a fleeing passenger
- Eddie Deakin - flight engineer being blackmailed by the kidnapping of his wife into helping Tom Luther
- Carl Hartmann - German Jewish physicist fleeing Nazis
- Clive Membury - Secret Scotland Yard agent, assigned to protect Carl Hartmann
- Baron Gabon - French Jewish aristocrat helping Carl Hartmann flee
- The Oxenfords (Lord, Lady, Elizabeth, Percy, Margaret) - wealthy English family. Lord Oxenford is a Nazi sympathizer who will be arrested if he remains in England another week. Margaret is his 19-year-old rebellious daughter. Lady Oxenford is traveling with the priceless Delhi Suite jewels.
- Harry Marks - charming young lower class English jewel thief jumping bail to America
- Diana Lovesey - beautiful 34-year-old Englishwoman running away from an unhappy marriage
- Mark Alder - 39-year-old American radio scriptwriter running away with Diana Lovesey, friend of Lulu Bell
- Mervyn Lovesey - Diana's 38-year-old handsome but controlling British industrialist husband who wants his wife back
- Nancy Lenehan - tough-minded 40-year-old American businesswoman rushing home to save her shoe factory from being sold off by her sneaky younger brother
- Peter Black - 38-year-old brother of Nancy Lenehan, racing to a board meeting to vote his sister out
- Nat Ridgeway - Nancy's mentor in business and former beau
- Captain Marvin Baker - Clipper pilot
- First Officer Johnny Dott - Clipper co-pilot
- Mickey Finn - Eddie Deakin's deputy flight engineer
- Lulu Bell - famous American actress
- Princess Lavinia - Russian princess escaping to America
- Steve Appleby - Eddie Deakin's old Navy buddy
- Vincini, Joe and Kid - thugs who kidnapped Eddie's wife
- Ollis Field - F.B.I. agent escorting the extradited Frank Gordon to America
- Frank Gordon A.K.A. Frankie Gordino - handsome American mobster, wanted in the US for rape, murder and arson
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