The Case of the Buried Clock

Cast of characters

Adele Blane — Who always looked five years younger or twenty years older

Harley Raymand — Back from the front with a Purple Heart and a new outlook

The Clock — Twenty-five minutes slow — or was it fast?

Jack Hardisty — Milicent’s husband

Milicent Blane Hardisty — Adele’s sister

VINCENT P. BLANE — Father of Adele and Milicent, rich, charming, dignified, worried

BURTON STRAGUE — Would-be writer, with a whimsical smile, a steady gaze and T.B.

LOLA STRAGUE — His sister, tall, slender, direct

RODNEY BEATON — Photographer and naturalist, the deep bass type

MYRNA PAYSON — Rancher and widow. She “could wear anything”

PERRY MASON — Lawyer extraordinary

DELLA STREET — His secretary

JAMESON — Deputy sheriff

PAUL DRAKE — Of the Drake Detective Agency

MARTHA STEVENS — The Blane housekeeper

DR. JEFFERSON MACON — Roxbury physician

Thomas L. McNair — Deputy district attorney

JUDGE CANFIELD — Trial judge

WILLIAM SMILEY — Friend of Martha Stevens

HAMILTON BURGER — District attorney