To my friends
the Louie family
and in particular to
Ngoh geh dak beit chung meng SIn Sahng
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