Bertie Shields (“A Blue Ribbon Affair”)
Bertie Shields is a second-year student at Saint John’s. He is infatuated with Joyce Renfrew. He gives into her flirtation and gets sexually intimate with her on top of a stretcher. The corpse’s Blue ribbon hypnotizes Bertie Shields and arouses him sexually.
Joyce Renfrew (“A Blue Ribbon Affair”)
Joyce Renfrew is a thirty-five year old, flirtatious nurse. She informs Bertie that she is on duty only thrice every week and her duties are usually at night. She flirts with Bertie at the morgue and has coitus with him in the morgue.
The Doctor (“The Consultation”)
The doctor is an accomplished surgeon who is attending a convention that he finds monotonous. He distracts himself from his professional life by looking for a prostitute.
Gloria Snurkowski (“The Consultation”)
Gloria is Polish woman who thrives on prostitution. Her breast has a lump which she is not willing to remove as she regards her breasts as critical assets. She pays the doctor, whom she offers prostitution services, for enlightening her about the lump, the doctor repudiates the payment though.
