For other uses of Vince, see Vince (disambiguation).
“There were others who were as good with a sketch or a comp-generated image, but Yancy had a way of helping a witness remember details, ot talking them through the process.” - Visions in Death[1]
Yancy, Detective Vince
Introduced in Portrait in Death (August 8-15th, 2059)
Personal Information[]
- Description: He was young, but he was good, he was solid.[2]
- Age: 28 (in 2060)[3]
- Relationships: Laurel Esty (girlfriend as of Brotherhood in Death; unnamed grandfather[4]
- Occupation: Police Detective, Ident artist, NYPSD (Cop Central)
Introduction[]
- First appeared in Portrait in Death when he was called in to try to create an image of Gerald Stevenson.[5]
Description[]
- Pretty-faced;[6] young and what Peabody would have called a cutie.[7]
- His mop of hair curled appealingly around his striking face.[9]
- He could pass for twenty-two or -three, Eve thought. Younger if he worked at it. Then his eyes opened, and she added another five years. The eyes knew too much for barely two decades.[9]
Personality[]
- He was personable and would “chat up” and/or flirt with a witness if it might help put them at ease; it was part of his technique.[10]
On the Job[]
- According to Dallas, he was the best Ident artist in the city.[12]
- Yancy was Eve’s favored artist.[13]
- He worked on an image for Dallas in Remember When[14] and in Visions in Death where he worked on the image with one of Roarke’s image programs.[15]
- In Visions in Death, Eve directed the witnesses to John Blue’s attack on Peabody to “Level Three, Section B, Identification Procedure.”[1]
- He also aged John Massey’s photo in Haunted in Death.[16]
Interesting Facts[]
- Yancy said that meditating for a few minutes cleared his head.[17]
- In January 2061 Yancy started dating Laurel Esty, who had been a witness in Brotherhood.[18] (She called him Vince,[18] which was the first mention of his given name.)
YANNI[]
- Yancy may have been promoted off-page, but he was called “Officer” in Portrait in Death (August 8-15th, 2059),[19] appeared as “Yancy” (still summer heading toward fall in Visions in Death),[20] and as “Detective” in Survivor in Death (October, 2059; three weeks after Visions).[21]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Visions in Death, Chapter 20
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 313
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-2899-5), p. 183
- ↑ Obsession in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), pp. 315, 321-322
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 323
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 180
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 196
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 182
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 203-204
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 162
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 169, 180
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 132
- ↑ Remember When (ISBN 0-425-19547-3), p. 399
- ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 315
- ↑ Haunted in Death (ISBN 0-515-14117-8), p. 65
- ↑ Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 213
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Apprentice in Death (ISBN 978-1101987995), p. 115
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 315
- ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 309
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 181, 204, 235