PC/NPC list

Roger Bell_West

PCs

• Gertrude Boswell (John Dallman) is a widowed Roma with medical and fortune-telling skills.
• Milly Carlisle (Clare Chippindale) is a knife-thrower and acrobat who keeps a theatrical boarding-house on the borders of Soho.
• Audrey Dole (Phil Masters) is a bluestocking in the Bloomsbury Set.
• Lin Tan (Owen Smith) is the half-Chinese daughter of an English lady, living with her parents in Hampstead.
• Bessie Turner (Bob Dowling) is a widowed magician’s assistant.

NPCs

• Mary Allen, freelance police organiser, early fifties, “mannish” in dress and habit, tends to wear a police uniform; leader of the Women’s Auxiliary Service; somewhat embarrassed organiser of the band.
• St John Aubrey, about forty, younger brother of the Viscount of Cardwell, somewhat knowledgeable on magical matters.
• Sonia Carter, welding sculptress with a gentleman-friend.
• Edith Garrud, late fifties, officially retired from training in jujutsu and self-defence but still (with her husband William) taking on an occasional student.
• Inspector Jameson, policeman, late thirties, starting to get annoyed by interference from above in his cases.
• Reginald Kennedy-Cox, late forties, active in promoting and running the Docklands Settlements, deceased apparently by spontaneous combustion.
• Dora Marsden, writer, late forties, somewhat distracted, suggested as a developer of the sight technique. Author of The Definition of the Godhead and Mysteries of Christianity, which she now thinks are “all wrong”.
• Matilda (“Mattie”) Orr, barmaid, late forties, deceased following a brawl in the Europa public house in Rotherhithe. Husband and two grown sons are merchant seamen.
• Sir George Paton, early seventies, former Chairman and Managing Director of Bryant and May, first to survive a dragon attack.
• Harold Peters, about thirty, experimenter in blasphemous surgery.
• Lily Preston, former inamorata-in-waiting to Harold Peters.
• Thomas Ramsey, statistician for the General Register Office for England and Wales, and an apparently sympathetic member of an apparently ancient organisation.
• Hilda Samuels, bookshop proprietor, mid thirties, last survivor of the “Samuels Brothers”.
• Mrs Smith, emphasis on the Mrs, West Indian matriarch and wise woman.
• Battling Tom Smith, dockworker and amateur boxer, one of the Rotherhithe Four.
• Sir Bernard Spilsbury, eminent Home Office pathologist.
• The Supercilious Man, presumed civil servant of some kind though rather better-dressed, knows at least something about magic, wears an amulet under his clothes, appears to be able to call on ready cooperation from the police.