Characters
- "The Continental Op", an operative from the San Francisco branch of the Continental Detective Agency
- Mickey Linehan, a detective from the Continental
- Dick Foley, a detective from the Continental
- The Old Man, boss of the San Francisco branch of the Continental
- Elihu Willsson, "Czar of Poisonville"
- Max Thaler, alias “Whisper,” a bootlegger
- Dinah Brand, Thaler's girlfriend
- Lew Yard, gangster
- Pete the Finn, bootlegger
- Reno Starkey, gangster
- Noonan, Chief of Police
- Hank O'Mara, member of Starkey's gang
- Bill Quint, an organizer for the IWW
- Donald Willsson, newspaper publisher
- Mrs. Willsson, Donald's Wife
- Lewis, Donald's assistant
- Robert Albury, bank teller
- Helen Albury, Robert's younger sister
- Dan Rolff, Dinah's roomater and a "lunger"
- Charles Procter Dawn, criminal lawyer
- Tim Noonan, brother of Chief Noonan
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“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)