The Copper Frame

Cast of Characters

LT. TED SAXON — He unsuspectingly rang in the New Year with a bell whose tongue never stopped, but his resolution solved his father’s murder

CHIEF ANDY SAXON — His public image, which revealed a will of iron, concealed a heart of gold torn by a lead slug

SAM LENNOX — A veteran cop whose vision and integrity are engulfed in an alcoholic haze

LT. VIC BURNS — He played “Hail to the Chief!” while the bullets rained, but his was more mortal than otherwise

EMILY VANE — The T.L.C. this nurse administers to her bereaved fiáncé, Ted, is not prescribed by a doctor

LT. ART MARKS — Acting Chief, he finds the role too demanding for his talents and the stage set for tragedy

BEN FOLEY — Outgoing mayor, he learns that the political picture looks different when it is framed

ADAM BENNOCK — The lame-duck mayor whose goose is cooked by master chef Saxon

EDWARD COOMBS — This harness-racing accountant wants to turn Iroquois into a racing stable for the Syndicate

SERGEANT HARRY MORRISON — A hustler’s hustler; he finds out that steering and playing the ponies are furlongs apart

GRACE EMMENT — The gangster’s moll who got her mink coat just the way the minks do, but then was skinned alive for it

JENNY WATTE — This meter-maid’s New Year didn’t start with a bang, but she thought that Chief Saxon’s did

ARNOLD KETTLE — A plump D.A. who stands so erect that he seems to lean slightly backward, but then falls flat on his face trying to uphold Justice

ALTON ZEK — A junkie stool pigeon who plays both sides against his own end

ANN LOWRY — A sexpuss who becomes a cat’s-paw

SANDRA NORMAN — A call girl who gets her wires crossed when she tries to make a connection

FARMER BENTON AND SPIDER WERTZ — They prove that gangsters by any other nicknames would smell the same