The Case of the Backward Mule

Cast of Characters

Terry Clane

   Student and friend of the Orient who does some amateur sleuthing in San Francisco

Cynthia Renton

   Portrait painter whose impulsiveness leads to trouble

Yat T’oy

   Clane’s servant, who believes in daggers as well as wits

Edward Harold

   Who would prefer to shoot it out with the cops than surrender to “justice”

Horace Farnsworth

   A very dead investment dealer

Stacey Nevis

Ricardo Taonon

George Gloster

   Copartners, with Farnsworth, in the Eastern Art Import and Trading Company, an organization which lost a lot of money but reaped a lot of profits

Bill Hendrum

   Always cheering for the underdog

Sou Ha

   Chinese girl who knows some Occidental tricks

Chu Kee

   Her father, who has a proverb and a solution for most situations

Sam Kenton

   Farnworth’s man-about-the-house

Inspector Malloy

   Who talks and talks and talks