The Case of Shanghai - Involvit Personas
Jackson Elias - Mutual Friend of the investigators, now deceased
Jonah Kensington - Owner/Editor of the Prospero Press
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
- Anastasia - In Elias's notes as player on expedition team
Investigators
- Jack Falcon - Returned from his ordeal in the Atlantic Ocean
- Dr. Victor Lester - Renown alienist
- Father Cillian Quinn - Catholic priest who joined the investigators
- Mary Elise St. Dennis - Heiress with a sense of adventure
People Met Previously
Edward Gavigan - Director of the Penhew Foundation
Lars Torvak - Captain of the ship The Ivory Wind
Madam Gee's Flower Girl House
- Madamn Gee - Manages a house of ill repute in Shanghai
- Choi Mei-ling - Worked for Madam Gee but recently ran off, perhaps with Jack Brady
- Quivering Jade - Works for Madam Gee
- Magenta Joy - Works for Madam Gee and witnessed murder by bat
- Falling Quartz - Works for Madam Gee
Ho Fong Imports
- Ho Fong - Penhew Foundation was shipping him a statue of an elephant man
- Ho Tzu-his - Daughter of Ho Fong and Wei Ching-lai
- Pao Wu-kung - Ho Fong's driver who had an affair with Wei Ching-lai
- Wei Ching-lai - Wife of Ho Fong
Other
Jack Brady - Seems to be involved with the Firm Action Faction in Shanghai
Anthony Chang - Editor at the Shanghai Courier who takes an interest in the investigators
Chang Tsung-chang - Leader of the Fengtian Clique in Shanghai
Chi Shi-yan - Former ruler in Shanghai before the current cliques took over
Patrick Devlin - Arms dealer in Shanghai who hangs around Hell's Kitchen
Du Yuesheng - Warlord extorting the investigators in Shanghai A.K.A Mr. Du
Li Wen-cheng - Guide offered by the League of Nations to assist the investigators in Shanghai
Lin Yenyu - Madam of an upscale house of ill repute in Shanghai who has an interest in the occult
Mister Lung - Astrologer / fortune teller in Shanghai
Fergus "McChu" - Purveyor of the Stumbling Tiger
Alfred Penhurst - Registered owner of The Dark Mistress
Jules Savoyard - Captain of The Dark Mistress
Carl Stanford - An exceptionally powerful wizard
Sun Chang-fang - Leader of the Zhili Clique in Shanghai
Isoge Taro - Captain in the Japanese Naval Intelligence typically posing as a fisherman
Charlie West - Lead mentioned by Fergus "McChu" when asking about Jack Brady - presumed fake