Blurb
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins' Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh... and every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is... Making Money!
Characters
- Supporting characters
- Owlswick Jenkins, artist, presumed to be hangèd
- Hubert Turvy, economist
- Pucci Lavish, member of the Lavish family
- Gladys, a gender confused golem
- Drumknott, Vetinari's secretary
- Igor, Hubert Turvy's assistant
- Mr Shady, the hereditary foreman of the Mint
- Topsy Lavish, nee Turvy, Chairman of the Bank
- Death, you know who
- Stanley Howler, Head of Stamps
- Heretofore, Cosmo Lavish's secretary
- "Professor" Cranberry, Cosmo Lavish's Assassin
- Ribcage Jack, associate of Professor Cranberry
- Mr. Slant, Ankh Morpork's premier lawyer (and zombie)
- Corporal Nobby Nobbs, of the Watch
- Sergeant Fred Colon, of the Watch
- Sergeant Angua von Überwald, of the Watch
- Sacharissa Cripslock, reporter from The Times
- Aimsbury, Mr Fusspot's cook
- Peggy, Aimsbury's daughter
- Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, sausage purveyor
- Harry King, the king of golden river
- Mrs. Cake, landlady
- Bellyster, prison guard
- Mr Spools, printer of the firm Teemer and Spools
- Chair of Indefinite Studies
- Ponder Stibbons, a wizard
- Dr John Hicks, head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications, (not a necromancer)
- Professor Flead, deceased necromancer
- Barnsforth a student wizard, soon to be a Doctor of Post-Mortem Communications following some terse negotiation;
- Goatly another student wizard soon to become a Doctor;
- Hammersmith Coot, a junior bank clerk
- Miss Drapes, assistant to Mavolio Bent
- Ludmilla Cake, Mrs Cake's daughter
- Robert Spittle, a bank clerk
- Ms Berenice Houser, clerk at the Ankh-Morpork Times
- Grace Speaker, an otherwise blameless woman who runs a petfood shop, who attracts Vetinari's attention.
- Constable Haddock, of the Watch
- Sergeant Detritus, of the Watch
- Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, of the Watch
- Anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers
- Commander Samuel Vimes, of the Watch
- Lord Downey, head of the Assassins' Guild
- Dr. Whiteface, head of the Fools' Guild
Things and Concepts