Licensed Companion (Licensed Prostitute) - There were various levels that were licensed by the state. The lowest level and lowest paying, was a basic street walker, who walked the streets looking for their next customer. “Street levels didn’t deal with names.”[1] Other levels were based on the amount a person could charge a customer. Licensed companions, or LCs, were required by the state to be regularly tested for both sexually transmitted diseases and drug usage.
Most upper level LCs worked out of their home and screened their potential clients. They were also likely to have regular clients.
Licensed Companions mentioned in the In Death series include (in order of appearance/mention):
- Sharon DeBlass, who was murdered in Naked in Death[2]
- Charles Monroe, introduced in Naked in Death[3], and retired in Strangers in Death before proposing to Louise Dimatto[4]
- Lola Starr, who was murdered in Naked in Death[5]
- Georgie Castle, who was murdered in Naked in Death[6]
- Carolle Lee (unlicensed), who died a suspicious death in Sector 38 about ten years prior to Glory in Death[7]; Randall Slade was charged with soliciting an unlicensed companion, possession of illegal chemicals, and contributing to a fatality[8]
- Lucille, who Crack said went with Boomer to a privacy room at the Down and Dirty Club in Immortal in Death before correcting himself and saying it was Hetta[9]
- Hetta Moppett, who Boomer did get together with in Immortal in Death, and who was subsequently murdered[10]
- Loretta Murray, who worked as a showgirl/swimmer/mermaid at the Mermaid Club in Vengeance in Death[11]
- Erin Spindler, who was murdered six weeks before Conspiracy in Death; her case was botched by Detective Rosswell[12]
- Mandy, who worked for Spindler and was living in her apartment in Conspiracy in Death[13]
- Lida, who worked for Spindler, but as of Conspiracy in Death was one of the four women who took over the business[14]
- Pokey, a low-level Zoner dealer and part-time LC in Loyalty in Death; he was called “Pokey” because he gave a real quick poke[15]
- Allyanne Preen, who was found stretched out in an abandoned ’49 Lexus coupe in long-term parking of La Guardia in Witness in Death; she had a faint blue tinge to her skin, most likely indicating an OD from Exotica and Jumper[16]
- Reenie Pikowski (aka Reenie Pike), the Trueheart of street-level LCs and a neighbor of Louis K. Cogburn, Ralph Wooster, and Suzanne Cohen’s in Purity in Death[17]
- Jackson Hooper, who got certified the year before Portrait in Death to pick up extra money, but found it a lot of work and boring[18]
- Jacie Wooten, who was murdered in a Jack the Ripper-style in Imitation in Death[19]
- Suzanne Smith, a former street-level LC and Carmichael Smith’s abusive mother in Imitation in Death[20]
- Loelle, Randall Beam’s alibi for the night Annalisa Sommers was murdered in Visions in Death[21]
- Ineza Blue (retired), John Blue’s abusive mother, whom he murdered before Visions in Death[22]
- Ophelia Washburn, whose license was suspended due to testing positive for Exotica and Go[23], but reinstated by Eve when she was able to provide descriptions of the killers in Survivor in Death[24]
- Bebe Petrelli, whose license was revoked long before Strangers in Death[25]
- Cassie Gordon (unlicensed), who worked at Bang She Bang in Strangers in Death[26]
- Ava Crampton, a top-tier LC who was murdered in Indulgence in Death[27]
- Della McGrue, a friend and occasional client of A.A. Asner’s in Celebrity in Death[28]
- Dorie (street-level), one of the two unsecured LCs in the elevator at Cop Central when Eve and Roarke were heading for her vehicle in Thankless in Death[29]
- Lucille, who used to give Malachi Golde, Dave Hildebran, Jerald Reinhold, and Joe Klein a group rate on blow jobs back when they were 16 or 17; Joe and Jerry still went to her sometimes in Thankless in Death[30]
- Rosie Kent, whose murder about five weeks before Dark in Death was modeled after the crime in Dark Falls by Blaine DeLano, the first book in the Deann Dark series that spun off from The Hightower Chronicles[31]
- Yvette Conroy (from Discretion), who serviced Lorcan Cobbe in Shadows in Death[32]
- Leesa Culver (street-level), who was killed by Jonathan Harper Ebersole in Framed in Death[33]
- Dana “Starlight” Chumbley (street-level), who worked the same block as Culver in Framed in Death[34]
- Monique Varr (street-level), who worked the same block as Culver and Chumbley in Framed in Death[34]
- Zola Messner (street-level), who worked the same block as Culver, Chumbley, and Varr in Framed in Death, but on the east side of the street[34]
- Diego Quint (street-level), who worked the same block as Culver, Chumbley, Varr, and Messner in Framed in Death, but on the east side of the street[34]
- Bobby Ren (street-level), who was killed by Jonathan Harper Ebersole in Framed in Death[35]
- Luce Mulligan (street-level), who worked the same area as Ren in Framed in Death[36]
- Ansel Porter (street-level), who worked the same area as Ren and Mulligan in Framed in Death[36]
- Janette “Chablis” Whithers (street-level), who was killed by Jonathan Harper Ebersole in Framed in Death[36]
- Traci Barker (street-level), who worked the same area as Chablis in Framed in Death[37]
- Marty Saxton (street-level), who worked the same area as Chablis and Barker in Framed in Death[37]
- Aaron Pine (street-level), who was NOT killed by Jonathan Harper Ebersole in Framed in Death, although that had been Ebersole’s plan[38]
References
- ↑ Framed in Death, Chapter 3
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 6
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 18
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), pp. 202-203, 210
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 58
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), p. 198
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 91
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 92
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), p. 140
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), p. 178
- ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-16039-8), pp. 308-309
- ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), pp. 87-88
- ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), pp. 136-137
- ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-16813-4), p. 137
- ↑ Loyalty in Death (ISBN 0-425-17140-X), p. 104
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 131
- ↑ Purity in Death (ISBN 0-425-18630-X), pp. 44-45
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 42
- ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 2
- ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 182
- ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-3499-6), p. 262
- ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-3499-6), p. 310
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 166
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 167-169
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 207
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 261
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 6
- ↑ Celebrity in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ Thankless in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Thankless in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Dark in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Shadows in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ Framed in Death, Chapter 1
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Framed in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Framed in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Framed in Death, Chapter 13
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Framed in Death, Chapter 15
- ↑ Framed in Death, Chapter 19