# Lexicon of Persons Connected with the Investigation explained — The Roman Hat Mystery

> Chapter companion for The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen.

## What happens

A reference list of all individuals involved in the Monte Field murder case, provided by Ellery Queen for the reader's convenience to track characters who may become significant in the solution of the crime.

## Themes in this chapter

### The Reader as Detective

Ellery Queen explicitly provides this lexicon to aid the reader in tracking characters, urging frequent study to avoid cries of 'Unfair!' and emphasizing reasoning over passive reading.

## Character check-ins

### Monte Field

The victim, described as an important personage.

### William Pusak

Clerk, cranially a brachycephalic.

### Doyle

A gendarme with brains.

### Louis Panzer

Broadway theatre-manager.

### James Peale

The Don Juan of Gunplay.

### Eve Ellis

The quality of friendship is not strained.

### Stephen Barry

Juvenile lead, one can understand his perturbation.

### Hilda Orange

Celebrated English character-actress.

### Thomas Velie

Detective-Sergeant who knows a thing or two about crime.

### Hagstrom

Gentleman of the Homicide Squad.

### Ritter

Gentleman of the Homicide Squad.

### Dr. Samuel Prouty

Assistant to the Chief Medical Examiner.

### Madge O'Connell

Usherette on the fatal aisle.

### Dr. Stuttgard

There is always a doctor in the audience.

### Jess Lynch

The obliging orangeade-boy.

### Parson Johnny

Alias John Cazzanelli, naturally takes a professional interest in Gunplay.

### Benjamin Morgan

What do you make of him?

### Frances Ives-Pope

Enter the society interest.

### Stanford Ives-Pope

Man-about-town.

### Harry Neilson

He revels in the sweet uses of publicity.

### Henry Sampson

For once an intelligent District Attorney.

### Charles Michaels

The fly—or the spider?

### Angela Russo

A lady of reputation.

### Timothy Cronin

A legal ferret.

### Oscar Lewin

The Charon of the dead man's office.

### Franklin Ives-Pope

If wealth meant happiness—

### Mrs. Phillips

Middle-aged angels have their uses.

### Dr. Thaddeus Jones

Toxicologist of the City of New York.

### Edmund Crewe

Architectural expert attached to the Detective Bureau.

### Djuna

An Admirable Crichton of a new species.

### Richard Queen

Astute gentleman whose business it is to discover such things.

### Ellery Queen

Astute gentleman whose business it is to discover such things.

## Key lines

> The writer therefore urges a frequent study of this chart during the reader’s pilgrimage through the tale, if toward no other end than to ward off the inevitable cry of “Unfair!”⁠—the consolation of those who read and do not reason.

The author advises readers to consult this list often while reading, to prevent accusations of unfairness from those who read without thinking.

_Ellery Queen emphasizes the importance of active reasoning for the reader._

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