| 1 | | | DEMONSTRATION OF DEATH |
| | Muriel | Beale | Inspector of the Nurse Training Schools. |
| | Angela | Burrows | Principal Tutor at a London teaching hospital. |
| | Mary | Taylor | Matron of a major teaching hospital. |
| | Miss | Montrose | Muriel Beale's acquaintance. |
| | Hilda | Rolfe | The Principal Tutor. |
| | Stephen | Briggs | The senior consultant surgeon. |
| | Mavis | Gearing | A clinical instructor. |
| | Heather | Pearce | One of a student nurses. |
| | Mrs. | Stokes | A patient. |
| | Christine | Dakers | One of a student nurses. |
| | Madeleine | Goodale | One of a student nurses. |
| | Maureen | Bart | One of a student nurses. |
| | Shirley | Bart | One of a student nurses. Maureen's twin sister. |
| | Julia | Pardoe | One of a student nurses. |
| | Diane | Harper | One of a student nurses. |
| | Martha | Collins | The housekeeper. |
| | Josephine | Fallon | One of a student nurses. Aka: Jo. |
| | Ethel | Brumfett | The Sister in charge of the private ward. Aka: Brum. |
| | Paul | Hudson | The hospital's secretary. |
| | Marcus | Cohen | The Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee. |
| 2 | | | CEASE UPON THE MIDNIGHT |
| | Bill | Bailey | An inspector. |
| | Albert | Colgate | The porter on night duty in the main lodge. |
| 3 | | | STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE |
| | Adam | Dalgliesh | The Chief Superintendent. |
| | Miles | Honeyman | A forensic pathologist. |
| | Fenning | | A photographer. |
| | Robert | Hills | An English painter and etcher. |
| | John | Wesley | An English cleric, theologian and evangelist. |
| | Jane | Austen | An English novelist. |
| | Daniel | Greene | An author. |
| | Evelyn | Waugh | An English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books. |
| | Ivy | Burnett | An English novelist. |
| | David | Hartley | The author of Observations on Man. |
| | Tom | Powell | The chairman of the Powell industries. |
| | Cary | Elwes | An English actor and writer. |
| | John | Donne | An English poet and cleric in the Church. |
| | Charles | Masterson | A detective. |
| | Mr. | Scunthrope | A wine store owner. |
| | Alderman | Kealey | Vice-Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee. |
| | Michaelangelo | Antonioni | Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and author. |
| | Raymond | Grout | The Group Secretary. |
| | Miss | Buckfield | Miss Rolfe's secretary. |
| | Dr. | Snelling | A general physician. |
| | Nurse | Wilkins | A student nurse. |
| | Miss | Arkwright | A customer in the department store. |
| | Mrs. | Dakers | Nurse Dakers' mother. |
| | Roland | Harper | Diane Harper's father. |
| | Mrs. | Cox | A ward Sister. |
| 4 | | | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| | Constable | Greeson | A detective. |
| | Nigel | | Mr. Courtney-Briggs's nephew. |
| | Jennifer | Blain | One of the students. |
| | Tom | Mannix | The pediatric registrar. |
| | Sheila | | Bob's wife. |
| | Robert | Maycroft | A Group Captain. Aka: Bob. |
| | Sister | Manning | Miss Rolfe's first assistant. |
| | Leonard | Morris | The chief pharmacist of the hospital. Aka: Len. |
| | Mrs. | Muncie | A helper. |
| | Morag | Smith | A maid. |
| 5 | | | TABLE TALK |
| | Fleming | | The outpatient pharmacist. |
| | Miss | Wright | The senior secretary. |
| | Miss | Bunyon | The head radiographer. |
| | Mrs. | Nethem | The head medical social worker. |
| | Florence | Nightingale | An English statistician, and founder of modern nursing. |
| | Mr. | Molravey | The ophthalmic surgeon. |
| | Martin | Dettinger | One of the patients. |
| | Louise | Dettinger | Martin Dettinger's mother. |
| | G. K. | Chesterton | An English writer, philosopher. |
| | | Waddingham | A nurse. |
| | Miss | Baguley | A patient. |
| | Mrs. | Briggs | Mr. Courtney-Briggs' wife. |
| | Peter Albert | Briggs | Mr. Courtney-Briggs' brother. |
| | Macbeth | | A brave Scottish general. |
| | William | Shakespeare | English poet. |
| | Edie | | Heather's aunt. |
| 6 | | | LONG DAY'S ENDING |
| | Mrs. | Morris | Mr. Len Morris' wife. |
| | Thomas | Nightingale | A local string and rope manufacturer. |
| | Nancy | Gorring | A maidservants. |
| | Mrs. | Nightingale | Thomas' wife. |
| 7 | | | DANSE MACABRE |
| | Arnold | Dowson | Josephine Fallon's lover. |
| | Colette | | A French writer. |
| | Henry | Urquhart | Josephine Fallon's solicitor. |
| | Mr. | Surtees | Henry Urquhart's clerk. |
| | Sylvia | | Masterson's girlfriend. |
| | Tony | | Mrs. Dettinger's husband. |
| | Edward | Health | The name used by Matterson. |
| | Irmgard | Groble | Untrained female nurse. |
| 8 | | | A CIRCLE OF BURNT EARTH |
| | Max | Klein | The head doctor. |
| | Ernst | Gumbmann | A young pharmacist. |
| | Adolf | Straub | The chief male nurse. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Willig | | One of the nurses. |
| | Rhode | | One of the nurses. |
| | Ernest | Brumfett | An English sergeant. |
| | Sergeant | Taylor | Mary Taylor's husband. |
