- An unnamed Central European capital, meant to be Prague,[2] where Raven murders the old politician and his secretary.
- London, where Raven is paid off by Cholmondeley,[3] where Anne has lodgings but cannot find work, and where Mather is based at Scotland Yard.
- Nottwich, a fictional version of Nottingham,[4] site of the steel works where Sir Marcus lives in a penthouse, where Anne gets a job in a pantomime, and where Raven goes to find and kill Cholmondeley.
- At the time of writing, tensions towards the outbreak of the Second World War were already increasing. Two years before the signing of the Munich Agreement, it was a reasonable surmise to assume that Czechoslovakia would have an important role in the unfolding drama.
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