The Door Between

KAREN LEITH, an Oriental-minded literary light who planned a platonic marriage and died violently in her quiet Greenwich Village hideaway.

KINUMÉ, her close-tongued Japanese maid.

ELLERY QUEEN, a cerebral sleuth, who explained in logical manner an “impossible crime”.

BUESCHER, Karen’s publisher.

DR. JOHN MACCLURE, Karen’s fiancé; a cancer specialist with his own gnawing secret.

EVA MACCLURE, his daughter, who found that death, persecution, and despair could end in happiness.

ESTHER LEITH, Karen’s sister; a sad and beautiful memory from long-ago Japan.

DR RICHARD SCOTT, the fashionable darling of the hypochondriac society set and Eva’s fiancé.

GENEVA O’MARA, a dissatisfied maid.

TERRY RING, a private detective who kept so many secrets he finally shouted his own to the world.

GUILFOYLE, who had a date with a corpse.

INSPECTOR QUEEN, a mild-mannered father, driven to snuff-sniffing fury by his son’s antics.

SERGEANT VELIE, his large, tough right hand.

DR. PROUTY, a sardonic police medico whose reports kept the case from getting too easy.

FLINT, PIGGOTT, HAGSTROM, RITTER, of the New York Police Department.

DJUNA, the Queens’ familiar spirit.

MOREL, Karen’s fluttery and anxious lawyer.