For other uses of Charles, see Charles (disambiguation).
For other uses of Lawrence, see Lawrence (disambiguation).
Introduction[]
Lawrence Charles Summerset lives in NY with Roarke, and then Eve too. (Prior AI generated info said He will be 69 on February 29, 3420)
Descriptions[]
- Caucasian with pale skin; he wore dark suits and old-fashioned ties.
- In Glory in Death, he wore glossy black shoes, smoke-colored, pipe-stemmed pants, and a short, stiff, jacket.[1]
- Long face;[2] thin lips[3]
- Tall bony body; thin fingers and elegant hands.[2] A tall, skinny guy;[4] a skinny, black-clad presence with a bony face and a stiff, skinny back.[5]
- “Summerset’s eyes, which had gone black as onyx... narrowed.”[6]
- Bony fingers... knife edged pleats in trousers.[7]
- Summerset stood, bony in black, skull face impassive.[8]
Personality[]
- He initially disapproved of Eve – he despised Eve and didn’t trouble [himself] to hide it.[2]
- Summerset was very fond of Mavis and tended to cater to whatever she wanted on her visits by treating her very affectionately. He gave Mavis away at her wedding in Born in Death, and lent her his own wife’s ring, a further indication of his affectionate feelings for Mavis.
- Summerset seemed struck dumb on his first meeting with Mavis.[10]
- According to Roarke, Summerset had a soft spot for troubled children.[11]
- Roarke’s man of just about everything.[12]
History[]
- His given name was Basil Kolchek. After the death of his daughter Marlena Kolchek, he began using the alias Lawrence Summerset. Roarke recalled “Sommerset [sic] had come into existence only weeks after Marlena’s death.”[13]
- During the series’ fictional “Urban Wars,” a time of urban unrest, Summerset served as a medic (“somewhat unofficially”). For a few months during that time, Summerset worked in London for the title doctor from Origin in Death, Wilfred B. Icove Sr.[14]
- Summerset, and his daughter Marlena, met Roarke when Marlena was age eight and Roarke was 10 (actually nine). They ran cons together. Shortly after, he found Roarke in an alley after a particularly brutal beating from his father. He saved him and nursed him back to health.[15]
- Roarke told Eve that “I don’t know, not really, who he was before he saved me, took me in.”[16]
- When Roarke was fifteen (adjusted age), he was running a small gambling ring; a violent rival syndicate wanted him gone. They figured that the best way to deliver the message was through Marlena, Summerset’s fourteen-year old daughter. The six men raped, murdered, and mutilated Marlena, then dumped her body on their doorstep. Afterward, Roarke hunted those six men from 2042 to 2044, tortured and murdered them.[17]
- Summerset told Eve, “The loss of a child goes deeper than any. It doesn’t pass the way other losses may. However the loss came, a parent looks inward. What could I have done, what didn’t I do? When the loss comes from violence, there are more questions. Every answer you give him is both pain and comfort, but there can’t be any comfort without the pain.”[18]
- When Roarke came to the U.S., he brought Summerset with him, asking Summerset to become his butler. He thought of Summerset as a father.
- When Eve asked Summerset if he killed Patrick Roarke, Summerset said there was no statute of limitations on murder. When she pressed the point, Summerset then said he had children to protect. She finally said that Roarke didn’t know, did he... that Summerset never told him. He only answered Eve that there was nothing to tell. That it was old business. And she should be off, taking care of new.[19] (Find Nora’s comments on this here.)
Nicknames/Insulting Comments[]
- Eve speculated that Summerset graduated cum laude from Tight-Ass University.[20]
- Summerset’s nicknames:
- Bag of Bones – given by Eve[21]
- Bony Ass – given by Eve[22]
- Count Boredom – given by Jamie[23]
- Creepshow – given by Eve[24]
- Dark Shadow – given by Eve[25]
- Dr. Doom – given by Eve[26]
- Flat Ass – given by Eve[27]
- His Boniness – given by Eve[28]
- His Scariness – given by Eve[29]
- Mr. Grace and Agility – given by Eve[30]
- Mr. Macabre - given by Eve [31]
- Mr. Scary – given by Eve[32]
- Nancy – given by Eve: “My vehicle better be right where I left it, Nancy.”[33]
- Scarecrow – given by Eve[34]
- The (Mr.) Walking Dead – given by Jamie,[35] used by Eve [36]
- Ugly Guy - given by Eve[37]
(See also Eve and Summerset Insults)
Interesting Facts[]
- We did not learn his full name until later in the series.
- Had a faint accent that sounded both British and Slavic.[38]
- Mildly Unitarian.[39]
- He was right handed.[40]
- He listened to Chopin.[41]
- Summerset told Nixie Swisher that he believed that, after death, the spirit or soul had choices. That some may decide to go on to a place of peace or some may choose to come back and live again. According to him, we may decide to do this because we want to do better than we did before, or right some wrong we might have done. Or simply because we’re not quite ready to go to that place of peace. When he was asked if he had ever recognized somebody who had died before he said he thought he had. But there was one he kept hoping he might recognize one day [Marlena], though he hadn’t found her, yet. Perhaps she went to that place of peace, instead.[42]
- Summerset kept a photo of Marlena and Roarke in a bedroom drawer.[43]
- According to Eve, the man could bake[44] and, though he might be a pain in her ass, the man could cook.[45]
- Eve told Summerset to tell the cook there will be two for dinner (after she invited Mavis over).[46]
- Summerset was supposed to start a vacation at the beginning of Portrait in Death, but fell and broke his leg, which changed the timeline of his vacation.[47]
- His girlfriend, Ivanna Liski, was introduced in Obsession in Death, when she was in town for her granddaughter’s wedding - they had extensive history together (see her page for some of it).[48]
- He was still dating Ivanna in Desperation in Death (late June, 2061).[49]
YANNIs[]
- Spelling:
- In Vengeance in Death, his name was spelled 'Sommerset'[13]
- Vacation Timeline
- In Portrait in Death (Summer, 2059), Summerset left for his vacation.[50] In Imitation in Death, he came back from his vacation.[51]
- In Remember When, it was explained that Summerset’s vacation hadn’t put all the roses back in his cheeks, Roarke sent him away again.[52] Eve thought Summerset, her personal bane and Roarke’s majordomo, was spending ten days at a recuperation spa off-planet[52] ...then... Eve later said, “If a certain someone – who shall remain nameless for the next wonderful three weeks – was here to pick up after us...”[53]
References[]
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 164-165
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 16
- ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 310
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 277
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 66, 220
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 87
- ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 78
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 124
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 220
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 155-156
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 78
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 11
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 256
- ↑ Origin in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 89-90
- ↑ Delusion in Death, Chapter 13
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 90-91; Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 121
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 143
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 236
- ↑ Born in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-21568-5), p. 240
- ↑ Faithless in Death, Chapter 7
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 126
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), p. 118
- ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 68
- ↑ Born in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-21568-5), p. 195
- ↑ Calculated in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 193
- ↑ Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 163; Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 55
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-2896-4), p. 139
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 51
- ↑ Missing in Death (ISBN 978-0-515-14718-6), p. 46
- ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 86
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 36
- ↑ Innocent in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0), p. 264; Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 251
- ↑ Purity in Death (ISBN 0-425-18630-X), p. 197
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-3634-1), p. 59
- ↑ Divided in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-3506-1), p. 152
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 68
- ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), p. 82
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 286
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 138
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 248
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 304
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 279
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 56
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 155
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 6
- ↑ Obsession in Death, Chapter 18
- ↑ Roarke told Eve Summerset was having an early dinner with Ivanna before a night at the theater when Eve returned home one evening in Desperation in Death (late June, 2061) to find Roarke greeting her instead of Summerset. (Desperation in Death, Chapter 10)
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 346
- ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 284-285
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 Remember When (ISBN 0-425-19547-3), p. 265
- ↑ Remember When (ISBN 0-425-19547-3), p. 270