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Director - Blue Pagoda Agency

Experience:		30370260
Archetype:		Tough and Charming
Age:		1032 days
Gender:		female
Background:		Moonlighting Dilettante
Sleuth Theme:		Secret #1
Last Login:		Nov-20-2009
Account Status:		Moderator
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Community:		Post History

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Detective Biography

Mama said she was a ‘dancer’.

And if we’d travelled in polite circles, I might have known that what she did was called burlesque, but hell, we didn’t travel in no ‘po-lite circles’, so I only ever heard it called “the hooch”.

To give Mama her due, she was damn good at what she did. The men who came to see her flaunt her ample charms never went away disappointed. She always left them with their jowls slathering and their trousers stretched to the point of no return; always wanting more... always wanting Mama.

I don’t suppose, looking back, I really understood most of what went on. I was as much boy as girl; shapeless and sexless; unconcerned as I was by buttons and bows. Scuttering between the rows of shuffling, restless men, picking up the coins they tossed at Mama, and the clothes Mama tossed at them, was just a game to a scrap of a child.

But all games come to an end.

Perhaps Mama saw the writing on the wall; perhaps she saw those restless men turning their attentions to something prettier and younger. Whatever it was, one day I was sitting on the steps outside our ramshackle little house, waiting for Mama to finish with one of her ‘special clients’, and the next I was sitting on a train bound for Missouri to go live with a Grandmother I hadn’t even known existed.

I cannot say I shed a tear when Mama put me on that train. Besides she always cried for both of us. Too overcome for words, she kissed me quickly and pushed a slender package into my hands, before turning away into the waiting arms of one of my many ‘uncles’.

(I took a seat away from the windows to avoid the scene Mama was no doubt making)

So with a suitcase full of clothes I had never worn (Mama had decided to splurge on me), with a ticket to a place I had never been, to go live with a woman I had never met, I wondered what strange feeling this was welling up inside of me. I thought perhaps that it was finally sorrow taking it’s hold. But I was wrong... it was relief.

When I got to unwrapping Mama’s parting gift, I found the strangest legacy of all. For what I thought might be a doll, or a ribbon or comb, was not.

No, Mama had gifted me with a stiletto.

To the surprise of the weathered Nun that sat across from me, I held that long thin blade up to the light and smiled. That old girl must’ve seen something in that smile - same thing I s’pose some people see today - because she crossed herself mighty quick and was countin’ on her Rosary beads for the rest of that long train ride.

Needless to say that was only the beginnings of my adventures. That moment was not the making of me. Nor, I admit, am I complete. But it ‘was’ a start. I am no romantic, but how many can say their story started with 'light flickering on a silver blade'?

I may come to tell you the rest of my story. I may not.

All you need to know for now... is that I still carry that stiletto.

Politics

Contacts

Barber (New York)
Fortune Teller (New York)
Podiatrist (London)
Waiter (London)
Fish Monger (Shanghai)
Calligraphist (Shanghai)
Postal Clerk (Delhi)
Holy Man (Delhi)
Imam (Cairo)
Banker (Cairo)
First Mate (Sleuthetania)
Hairdresser (Sleuthetania)

Arch Villains

Captain Ravenna Blood
Active (New York)

Madonna "the Sniper" Moriarty
Captured

Countess Lucinda St. John
Captured

Marshal Circe Zhou
Captured

Alfonso "Scaramouche" Zhou
Captured

Mortimer "Bulldozer" Cain
Captured

Lady Hemlok Derringer
Captured

Pirate Queen Madonna Belphegore
Captured

Chrysandra "the Serpent" Jaeger
Captured

Countess Caliopa Lancaster
Captured

Dolores "the Knife" Malatesta
Captured

Marshal Luther Arjun
Captured

Countess Alexandra Glock
Captured

Rochelle "the Jackal" Glock
Captured

Zora "Hoot Owl" Grimm
Captured

Baronness Medea Wanstrath
Captured

Lenore "Blackguard" Chandler
Captured

Charming Jezebel Satterwaite
Captured

Rumrunner Alfonso von Dreyst
Captured

Marquis Erasmus Mahendra
Captured

Faakhir "the Squeak" Simonides
Captured

Caesar "the Squeak" Mahendra
Captured

Ludmilla "the Beetle" Cain
Captured

Shu Fang "the Shadow" Dvorkin
Captured

Count Roderick Mahendra
Captured

Captain Tatiana Dimitrijevic
Captured

Ursula "the Knife" Cain
Captured

Countess Drusilla Wanstrath
Captured

Sir Achan Glock
Captured

Madame Lenore Drake
Captured

Doctor Lizzie Xu
Captured

Sadie "the Squeak" Mahendra
Captured

Baron Drogo von Schneider
Captured

Baronness Aurelia Rowe
Captured

Professor Julius Dark
Captured

Victor "the Dragon" Severn
Captured

Admiral Mortimer Lancaster
Captured

Olaf "Knuckles" Xu
Captured

Cassandra "Two Thumbs" Zhou
Captured

Admiral Caesar Moriarty
Captured

Doctor Alaczar Severn
Captured

Isabella "the Hawk" Minx
Captured

Theodorus "the Rat" Scroggs
Captured

Ludwig "the Pistol" Rowe
Captured

Medea "the Hawk" Frost
Captured

Ludwig "the Hawk" Blood
Captured

Sir Theodorus Glock
Captured

Rex "the Razor" Frost
Captured

Professor Nox Wolf
Captured

Xavier "Two Thumbs" Scroggs
Captured

Lady Tatiana Thorn
Captured

Achan "Whirling Dervish" Grimm
Captured

Anastasia "the Pistol" Aryaman
Captured

Hemlok "Monkey Face" Aryaman
Captured

Letitia "Crazy Eyes" Wolf
Captured

Cassandra "Matchstick" Wanstrath
Captured

Doctor Letitia Cain
Captured

Lord Dasharath Stone
Captured

Baron Azriel Scroggs
Captured

Lord Otto Aryaman
Captured

Madame Narcisse Aryaman
Captured

Lizzie "the Scorpion" Grimm
Captured

Lord Silvanus Mahendra
Captured

Otto "the Leopard" Holtzer
Failed

Marshal Godfrey Holtzer
Failed

Books Collected

Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Style
Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Empty House
Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Arthur Morrison

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe

The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe

A History of Indian Philosophy
Surendranath Dasgupta

Fill My Tummy
Various Authors

Mystery Haiku Contest
Various Authors

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

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