Joseph | Brody | One of Geiger's men. Aka: Joe. |
Lash | Canino | Eddie Mars' trigger-happy gunman. |
Charlie | Chan | Fictional Honolulu police detective. |
Larry | Cobb | Vivian's date. |
Captain | Cronjager | Local police captain. |
John | Dillinger | American gangster. |
Arthur Gwynn | Geiger | A pornographer who runs an illegal smut rental shop. |
Mona | Grant | Eddie Mars's wife. Aka: Mona Mars, Silver-Wig. |
Al | Gregory | An officer at the Missing Persons Bureau. |
Harry | Jones | Unskilled criminal. |
Agnes | Lozelle | The front girl for Geiger's pornography rentals. |
Carol | Lundgren | Geiger's young homosexual lover. |
Philip | Marlowe | Private detective. Aka: Doghouse Reilly. |
Eddie | Mars | Leader of a gambling racket. |
Vincent | Norris | General Sternwood's butler. |
Bernie | Ohls | The D.A.'s chief investigator. |
Marcel | Proust | French novelist, critic, and essayist. |
Terrance | Regan | Ex-bootlegger and Vivian's husband. Aka: Rusty. |
Mr. | Schiff | Owner of the Glendower Apartments. |
Carmen | Sternwood | General Sternwood's daughter. |
Guy de Brisay | Sternwood | An elderly millionaire. Aka: General Sternwood. |
Vivian | Sternwood | Carmen's older sister. Aka: Mrs. Regan. |
Owen | Taylor | The Sternwoods' chauffeur. |
Taggart | Wilde | District Attorney. |
Abba | | Gregory's secretary. |
Lanny | | One of Eddie Mars's men. |
Mathilda | | Mrs. Regan's maid. |