Airplanes: SEE Tiger Moth

Ali, Amir and Aziz: Carpet merchants in Nairobi whose business is ruined by a fire.

Altitude Sickness: a collection of symptoms, including shortness of breath, headache, and nosebleed, brought on by decreased oxygen in the atmosphere, such as that encountered at high altitudes.

Antonio: Businessman who wanted to buy the Aziz brothers' carpet business.

Bataans:

Birkett, Ronald: Nairobi's cranky Commissioner of Police and Tyburn's immediate superior in rank.

Boer War:

Blue Jay: racehorse owned by Max van der Vuurst, favoured to win the Duke of Norfolk plate. Blue Jay lost the race when his jockey was poisoned.

Cameron, Viscount "Boy":

Carstairs, Gladys: Seldom sober wife of Gussie Carstairs.

Carstairs, Gussie: Unscrupulous solicitor for Lord Harry Ellsmere.

Cherry Brandy:

Chloroform:

Clarion: "The Voice of Kenya", Nairobi's newspaper owned by Maximilian van der Wuurst.

Cocaine:

Coffee:

Cricket:

Depression:

DeVille, Chico:

Devonshire:

Distinguished Service Order:

Dover Trading and Importers: English company Drennan uses as a front for his slave-trading activities.

Drennan, Thomas:

Duke of Norfolk plate: the main event of Race Week.

Efraim: Masai servant to Boy Cameron. Had an affair with Daphne Ellsmere and disappeared after the lion hunt following her death.

Egyptian Cobras:

Elliot, Charlotte: in Kenya 12 years

Ellsmere, Lady Daphne:

Ellsmere, Lord Harry:

"Fagging":

Fitzgerald, Daphne: SEE Ellsmere, Lady Daphne

Fitzgerald, Emma:

Gessler, Franz Dietrich:

Goodwin, Ralph: (---- 1931)

Grand Hotel:

Grogan, Fr.:

Harrow: where V's uncle 'fagged' Birtkett's cousin

Henratti: Firearms merchant in Nairobi.

Herbert, Edward: missionary for 5 years

Holland & Holland:

Kafaru Club:

Karinde, Jonah:

Keaton, Capt. Charles:

Kinsey, Sgt.:

Laertes: racehorse owned by Ralph Goodwin, winner of the 1931 Duke of Norfolk plate.

Laibon:

Lamu:

Lanyard, Clive: (19?? - 1931) Trained as a missionary, he was a police officer in Nairobi for four years before his affair with Lady Daphne Ellsmere. Killed by Karinde (in defense of Tyburn's life) before he could be brought to trial for the murders of Lady Daphne, Dr. Strachan, Mohammad, and those who perished in the carpet merchants' fire.

Laudanum: a tincture of opium. Laudanum was mixed with cherry brandy to drug (and ultimately kill) Blue Jay's jockey.

Lions:

Mafeking:

Malaria:

Markham, Beryl: woman pilot and author of West With The Night and other stories. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, going east to west against the prevailing winds. The character of Emma Fitzgerald is supposedly based on her life.

Marlborough: English public school.

Mary: Servant of the Watchams who is assaulted and later killed by Drennan.

McAllister, John:

Miller's Hotel:

Missionaries:

Mohammad: Senior houseboy for the Ellsmeres, killed by a snakebite from an Egyptian Cobra.

Mombasa:

Moyale:

Mueller, Dr. Emil: doctor and de facto medical examiner for Nairobi's criminal investigation department after the death of Dr. Strachan. Decorated for bravery in the Great War where he served as an army surgeon.

Nairobi: capital of Kenya. Around 1931, its population would have been around ______.

Ngong:

Ninth Lancers:

Prince of Wales: heir to the throne of the United Kingdom. In HOTS, the Prince of Wales (who would later be ......) was to have visited Kenya in early 1931 but was prevented when his father the King ( ) fell ill.

Pumwani:

Race Week:

Rugby: English public school.

Safari:

Scotland Yard:

Shilling: bail=5

Simba II

Singh:

Strachan, Dr. Alisdair:

Tana River:

Tanganyka(sp):

Tiger Moth: model of Emma Fitzgerald's plane.

Trafalgar Square:

Trefusis, Kika: Longtime mistress of Lord Harry Ellsmere.

Tyburn, Albert:

Vagrancy:

Valentine, James:

Valley Mission:

Van der Vuurst, Hilda:

Van der Wuurst, Jan:

Van der Vuurst, Maximillian:

Van der Wuurst, Piet:

Wangiki(sp?):

Watcham, Avril:

Watcham, Matilda:

Watcham, Theodore:

Willoughby, Freddie: Nephew of the governor, he gets himself in trouble with the law when he starts a drunken brawl after his engagement party.

Willoughby, Sir Rex: Governor of Kenya.

Created by Lianne Hanson, updated 14 Oct., 2001.