Cat of Many Tails

A Note on Names

If one of the functions of fiction is to hold a mirror up to life, its characters and places must be identified as in life; that is, through names. The names in this story have had to be numerous. For verisimilitude they are common as well as uncommon. In either category, they are inventions; that is to say, they are names deriving from no real person or place known to the Author. Consequently if any real person finds a name in this story identical with or similar to his or her own, or if any place in this story has a nominal counterpart in life, it is wholly through coincidence.

The story has also required the introduction of certain official- and employee-characters of New York City. Where names have been given to characters in this category, if such inventions should prove identical with or similar to the names of real officials and employees of New York City, again the resemblance is coincidental and the Author states in the most positive terms that no real official or employee of New York City has been drawn on in any way. Where names have not been used, only official titles, the same assurance is given. A special point should be made in the case of the characters of the Mayor (“Jack”) and the Police Commissioner (“Barney”). Neither the present Mayor and Police Commissioner of the City of New York, nor any past Mayor or Police Commissioner, living or dead, has been drawn on in any way whatsoever.

The list of person- and name-places invented follows. If any occur in the text which do not appear on the list, it is through failure of a weary proofreading eye and the reader should assume its inclusion.

Abernethy, Archibald Dudley

Abernethy, Mrs. Sarah-Ann

Abernethy, Rev.

Bascalone, Mrs. Teresa

Bauer, Frau Elsa, Austria

Beal, Arthur Jackson

Castorizo, Dr. Fulvio, Italy

Caton, Dr. Lawrence

Cavell, Dr. John Sloughby, Great Britain

Cazalis, Dr. Edward

Cazalis, Mrs. Edward

Chorumkowski, Stephen

Cohen, Cary G.

Collins, Barclay M.

Cuttler, Nadine

Devander, Bill

Ellis, Frances

Ferriquancchi, Ignazio

Finkleston, Zalmon

Frankburner, Jerome K.

Frawlins, Constance

Gaeckel, William Waldemar

Goldberg (Detective)

Gonachy, Phil

Hagstrom (Detective)

Heggerwitt, Adelaide

Hesse (Detective)

Immerson, Mrs. Jeanne

Immerson, Philbert

Irons, Darrell

Jackson, Lal Dhyana

Johnson (Detective)

Jones, Evarts

Jurasse, Dr., France

Katz, Donald

Katz, Dr. Morvin

Katz, Mrs. Pearl

Kelly’s Bar

Kollodny, Gerald Ellis

Larkland, Dr. John F.

“Leggitt, Jimmy”

Legontz, Mrs. Maybelle

MacGayn (Detective)

“Martin, Sue”

Marzupian, Harold

Mayor of New York City (“Jack”)

McKell, James Guymer

McKell, Monica

Merigrew, Roger Braham

Metropol Hall

Miller, William

Naardvoessler, Dr., Denmark

“Nostrum, Paul”

O’Reilly, Mrs. Maura B.

O’Reilly, Rian

O’Reilly, Mrs. Rian

Park-Lester Apartments

Petrucchi, Father

Petrucchi, Mr. and Mrs. George

Petrucchi, Stella

Phillips, Celeste

Phillips, Simone

Piggott (Detective)

Police Commissioner of New York City (“Barney”)

Pompo, Frank

Quigley (Detective)

Registrar of Records, Manhattan Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics of the Department of Health

Rhutas, Roselle

Richardson, Mrs. Della

Richardson, Leeper & Company Richardson, Lenore

Richardson, Zachary

Sacopy, Mrs. Margaret

Sacopy, Sylvan

Schoenzweig, Dr. Walther, Germany

Selboran, Dr. Andrés, Spain

Seligmann, Dr. Béla, Austria

Smith, Mrs. Eulalie

Smith, Violette

Soames, Billie

Soames, Mrs. Edna Lafferty

Soames, Eleanor

Soames, Frank Pellman

Soames, Marilyn

Soames, Stanley

Stone, Max

Szebo, Count “Snooky”

Treudlich, Benjamin

Ulberson, Dr. Myron

Velie, Barbara-Ann

Whithacker, Duggin

Whithacker, Howard

Willikins, Beatrice

Willikins, Frederick

Xavinzky, Reva

Young (Detective)

Zilgitt (Detective)