Because her face was obliterated by the blast at close range, she was identified by her clothing:Waldo Lydecker - a waspish columnist and radio broadcaster - a self-centered, cold-blooded and effeminate writer; also Laura""s mentor and protective confidantShelby Carpenter - Laura""s fiancee, a womanizing, poor, weak, but charming and debonair Southern aristocrat, and Anne Treadwell""s ""kept man""Anne Treadwell - Laura""s wealthy, amoral aunt, neurotically in love with her companion ShelbyBessie Clary - Laura""s devoted, domestic maid]The detective pays little attention to Lydecker, and amuses himself with a hand-held pinball puzzle, as he tries to fill he four bases of a baseball diamond with rolling balls.The King had ordered Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone) to eliminate the royal family and its infant king, and Ravenhurst asserted that he had been successful: ("Sire, there is no child.Pearl""s mother leaves with her lover, followed by Chavez.Passionately angered by her wanton, unfaithful actions, Scott murders both her and her gambler lover - the murder is seen in silhouette in a nearby building, while Pearl looks on in horror.With her face nestled against his, she teases and kids with him - and tenderly and seductively strokes his cheek and fools with his hair and ear, causing him to become paralyzed with desire.