This Is Murder

Cast of Characters

Sam Moraine, advertising executive, who plays a good game of poker

Phil Duncan, the poker-playing District Attorney

Barney Morden, chief investigator, D.A.’s office, who hates to lose at poker

Doris Bender, a gay young woman, addicted to filmy negligees

Thomas W. Wickes, her so-called boyfriend

Natalie Rice, Sam Moraine’s super-efficient secretary

Sid Bromley, captain of the Moraine yacht

Ann Hartwell, Doris Bender’s half-sister, whose disappearance starts it all

Dr. Richard Hartwell, her dentist husband

Carl Thorne, political boss behind the D.A.

Peter R. Dixon, present in name only

Frank Lott, a lugubrious undertaker

Alton Rice, Natalie’s father

Eaton Driver, foreman of the Grand Jury

James Tucker, Dixon’s butler