The "Canary" Murder Case/Characters of the Book

by Willard Huntington Wright

Characters of the Book

Philo Vance

John F.-X. Markham

District Attorney of New York County.

Margaret Odell (The "Canary")

Famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl, who was mysteriously murdered in her apartment.

Amy Gibson

Margaret Odell's maid.

Charles Cleaver

A man-about-town.

Kenneth Spotswoode

A manufacturer.

Louis Mannix

An importer.

Dr. Ambroise Lindquist

A fashionable neurologist.

Tony Skeel

A professional burglar.

William Elmer Jessup

Telephone operator.

Harry Spively

Telephone operator.

Alys La Fosse

A musical-comedy actress.

Wiley Allen

A gambler.

Potts

A street-cleaner.

Amos Feathergill

Assistant District Attorney.

William M. Moran

Commanding Officer of the Detective Bureau.

Ernest Heath

Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau.

Snitkin

Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Guilfoyle

Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Burke

Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Tracy

Detective assigned to District Attorney's office.

Deputy-Inspector Conrad Brenner

Burglar-tools expert.

Captain Dubois

Finger-print expert.

Detective Bellamy

Finger-print expert.

Peter Quackenbush

Official photographer.

Dr. Doremus

Medical Examiner.

Swacker

Secretary to the District Attorney.

Currie

Vance's valet.

The "Canary" Murder Case