http://www.wordnik.com/lists/private-dicke.xml From the letters page of the Times, some years ago: <br /> <br />Sir, <br /> <br />I am surprised to hear that Miles Kington (20th August) believes William Thacker to be the only film hero ever named after a famous author with the last two letters removed. <br /> <br />He has obviously never seen South Kensington, featuring two very ordinary booksellers, Samuel Richards and Robert Louis Stevens, whose lives are changed by a visit from private detective Charles Dicke. <br /> <br />Dicke and his Polynesian assistant, Mark Twa, are investigating the death of the cult priest George Eli, who had been invloved with Chinese stripper Virginia Woo. <br /> <br />Suspicion rests on the circus duo Anthony Trollo and Lewis Carro, together with the beautiful Lady Charlotte Bron, but behind it all lies the sinister hand of self-proclaimed messiah Agatha Christ, and her opium-addicted sex slave, James Joy. <br /> <br />-------- <br /> <br />Please add potential characters in the same style, and provide a brief description of each as a comment thereto. 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