_Title:_ The "Canary" Murder Case
_Date of first publication:_1927 1930
_Author:_ S. S. Van Dine [Willard Huntington Wright] (1888-1939)

Philo Vance
John F.-X. Makkham
     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.