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.
