Leanore Bastwick

Bastwick, Leanore - Lawyer

Appeared in Rapture in Death (July 31 - September 8, 2058), murdered in Obsession in Death (December 27-31, 2060), and mentioned in Brotherhood in Death (January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Icy, stunning, and meticulously dressed
• Hair: Blonde
• Weight: 118
• Relationships: Unnamed parents in Palm Beach; unnamed sister in Washington, D.C.
• Occupation: Criminal Attorney at Fitzhugh, Bastwick, and Stern, later Bastwick and Stern

Homicide Information

• Stunned and garroted from behind with a piano wire, and her tongue had been cut out
• Above the bed was a note, written on the wall. Addressed to Dallas, it claimed that the woman deserved death for her insults, and was signed “your true and loyal friend.”
• Security cameras recorded a delivery person - bundled up, gender unknowable, face constantly blocked by a box - entering and exiting the apartment at the times bracketing TOD (1833).
• Killed by Lottie Roebuck.

Interesting Facts

• An icy and stunning blonde beauty with perfectly manicured hands and heavily lashed eyes.
• Said Fitz was very much looking forward to dueling with Eve in court; that’s how he referred to cross-examination of expert and police witnesses.
• Stopped by Fitzhugh’s apartment around ten p.m. the night he died, and stayed 20-30 minutes.
• Said Arthur and Fitz were devoted to each other, although she amended her statement by saying that Arthur had periodic bouts of depression and tended to be jealous of him, but had no reason to be as Fitz never strayed.
• Attorney for Jess Barrow
• First murder in Obsession in Death
• Eve thought she had the ethics of a rattlesnake.
• According to her admin, Cecil Haversham, Bastwick told him that if nobody threatened her or called her unattractive names, she wasn’t doing her job. As such, they kept a file of threats. He compared that to Eve and Peabody’s jobs, since they must often find themselves in that same position.
• According to her law partner, Aaron Stern, “She’d defend her own killer, if she could. It’s how she was made.”
• Had an affair with former Senator Edward Mira, according to his daughter, Gwendolyn Mira Sykes.

YANNI

• She told Eve “In this firm we take care to know and socialize at least lightly with the spouses of partners and associates” in relation to how well she knew Foxx, but Fitzhugh and Foxx were legal cohabs, not spouses.