Henry Bock

Henry Bock was a captain in the San Francisco Police Department. He accompanied Detective Roland Dwyer to the office of private detective Miles Bowman with perplexing news. Evan Thursday, the man Bowman suspected of murdering his partner Tom Trencher, had himself been murdered.

Literary comment
Henry Bock is based on Lieutenant Dundy from Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.