The Case of the Bloody Tongue in NYC - Involvit Personas
Jackson Elias - Mutual Friend of the investigators, now deceased
Jonah Kensington - Owner/Editor of the Prospero Press
Lt. Martin Poole - Detective that responded to call of Elias murder scene
Carlyle Expedition Members
- Roger Carlyle - Led expedition to recover King Solomon's Mines
- Sir Aubrey Penhew - Assistant leader of expedition and in charge of excavations
- Dr. Robert Huston - Freudian psychologist accompanied expedition
- Miss Hypatia Masters - Photographer and archivist to expedition
- Mr. Jack Brady - General factotum on expedition
Tyler - Wrote dedication to Carlyle in People of the Monolith
Erica Carlyle - Roger's sister
Mrs. Victoria Post - Accompanied Erica Carlyle to Africa
Raoul Luis Maria Pinera - Romantically involved long-term with Hypatia Masters
Mr. Royston Whittingdon - Under-Secretary in Mombasa
Mr. Harvis - Lawyer? for the Colony at the trial of Nandi tribesmen for massacre of Carlyle Expedition
Faraz Najir - Wrote letter to Roger Carlyle on 2/3/1919
Ms. Smythe-Forbes - Employee at Nairobi Star
Sam Mariga - Mentioned in Jackson Elias's notes as a good source in Nairobi
"Nails" Nelson - Told Elias that he saw Jack Brady alive in Hong Kong in March 3 years after Kenyan courts declared whole expedition dead
Lt. Mark Selkirk - Led the men that found the remains of the Carlyle Expedition
Mr. Kenyata - Folklorist and political agitator in Nairobi, Kenya
Edward Gavigan - Director of the Penhew Foundation
Silas N'Kwané - Uses Emerson Imports to get "knickknacks" from Africa - Dead
Prof. Anthony Cowles, Ph.D. - Gave lecture on Cult of Darkness and bat god in South Pacific
Ahja Singh - Proprietor of Singh Imports in Niarobi
Makunga - De facto leader of NY's Cult of the Bloody Tongue
Seemingly Less Important Folks
Miriam Atwright - Librarian of Harvard University Library
Arthur McWyr - Australian Explorer who has found possible resurgence of Bat God in Australia
Thomas - Elias's guide in Kenya
Arthur Emerson - Owner of Emerson Imports
H. Ryder Haggard - Author of book detailing Quartermaine's exploration of Africa
Alan Quartermaine - Apparently an African explorer
Oscar Sinclair - Hotel Detective at Chelsea Hotel
Dr. Mordecai Lemming - Occultist
Thomas Witherspoon - Reported black car stolen near Juju House
Joe Cory - Enforcer for Black Hand mob
Joe Martin - PI we hired
Ms. Baker - Secretary at Emerson Imports
General Von Lettow-Vorbeck - Infamous - Was opponent of Lt. Mark Selkirk
Murder Victims
Walter Van Buskirk - Private Investigator, 43
Rev. Elijah A. Johnson - Harlem minister and activist, 62
Michael Conley - Longshoreman/dock worker, 36
Richard "Richie C" Cederecci - Known mafia numbers runner
Roberta Barlow - a Harlemite teen, 17
Adolf Thurmond - Wealthy dilettante/reported to the police he had information on the Cult then turned up dead, 22
John Doe #1 - Vagrant, 18-24
John Doe #2 - Vagrant, 55-60
Jackson Elias - Author, 38