CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Dutchman, who prefers to think of his slave-trading operation as an International Employment Placement Service.

Erich Von Horst, a con man's con man.

Herbie Miller, ivory poacher and part-time vampire.

Long Schmidt and Short Schmidt, a pair of brothers from Pittsburgh who became gods at the lost kingdom of the Malaloki.

Burley Rourke, a doctor specializing in diseases of the gullible.

Rosepetal Schultz, who differs from most ancient Egyptian queens in that she was born twenty-three years ago in Brooklyn.

The Rodent, undersized killer of either sixteen or thirty-five men, who changed his name from the Weasel for professional reasons.

Mr. Christian, officer aboard the good ship Dying Quail.

Bloomstoke, a tall, bronzed British nobleman who is living with a tribe of apes while hiding from his creditors.

Neeyora, just your typical naked blonde white goddess, who tips the scales at four hundred pounds, give or take an ounce.

Capturing Clyde Calhoun, who brings ’em back alive. Not intact, but alive.

Amen-hetep III, whose mummy carries a half-clad girl through the streets of Cairo before checking in at Shepheard's Hotel.

Major Theodore Dobbins, a man with a taste for rich widows, who is also a speculator in certain perishable commodities imported from far exotic China and points east.

And our narrator, The Right Reverend Honorable Doctor Lucifer Jones: his religion is a little something he and the Lord worked out between themselves one afternoon, his tabernacle is the most prosperous brothel in British East Africa, and he has serious disagreements with the authorities of fourteen different African nations over the finer points of the law. On the other hand, he means well.