You Don't Have To Be Mad...

Diogenes Club investigator Vanessa is brainwashed by a psychologist hellbent on creating functioning psychotics.

Main Characters
Richard Jeperson

Vanessa

Iain Ballance

Supporting Cast
Fred Regent

Alastair Garnett

Edwin Winthrop

Derek Leech does not appear, but he is presumably the occupant of the ShadowShark Rolls Royce which appears at the end of the story.

The Psychotics
Mr Achy (Harry Egge)

Mr Joyful (Jolyon Fuller)

Mr Enemy (Nicholas Mix-Elgin)

Miss Essex (Serafine Xavier)

Lt Commander Hero (Lieutenant Commander Hilary Roehampton)

Mrs Empty (implied to be Margaret Thatcher)

Mr Ease (amoral businessman - presumably Ernest Saunders)

Captain Naughty (airline pilot - presumably Norman Tebbit)

Rumour ("craggy voiced Australian" - presumably Rupert Murdoch)

Peace ("young Yorkshireman" - presumably Peter Sutcliffe)

Nurses
Miss Dove

Miss Lark

Sergeant-Mistress Finch

Miss Wren

Miss Robin

Miss Sparrow

Locations
Pleasant Green, near Whipplewell, Sussex

Reference is made to an incident a few weeks earlier involving a "Satanist Scoutmaster" at the Post Office Tower.

Dates
Late 1970. At the start of the story, Jolyon Fuller sacks "to-be-unemployed-by-1971" workmen.

Publication History
White of the Moon (Pumpkin Press, 1999)

Seven Stars (Anthology) (Boxtree, 2000)

The Man from the Diogenes Club (Anthology) (MonkeyBrain Books, 2006)