Madam Dupres

Dupres, Madam - née Evelyn Basset

Appeared in Wonderment in Death (mid-January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Wearing a simple dress in bold red, with her dark curling hair loose and unstyled, and a number of large and glittery rings adorning her fingers
• Age: 54
• Place of Birth: Yonkers, NY
• Height: 5 feet, 5 inches (165.1 cm)
• Hair: Dark
• Address: East Village apartment 200, over a Ukrainian restaurant
• Occupation: Psychic

Interesting Facts

• Had a thriving psychic business 25 years ago, including a screen show, but lost all of her fame and fortune to her husband/business manager, who ran off with her assistant after signing over all her money to him.
• Now ran her business out of a second-floor apartment in the East Village, over a Ukrainian restaurant.
• She had a clean record, and had assisted cops numerous times, locating missing children.
• Told Eve she didn’t read anybody without their permission, so she’d have to tell her why she was there.
• After Eve asked her if she knew Darlene Fitzwilliams, she got a headache, excused herself, and then sliced her femoral artery with broken glass and bled out. Before she died she told Eve “Beware the Mad Hatter. Lies, all lies. All his words, even his name. Dark is his truth. Death is his joy. I sent her to him. I sent her to her death. He’ll seek yours now. Beware the Mad Hatter.”
• She had a notebook in her underwear drawer, which turned out to be a diary that had her observations, thoughts, and poems. She mentioned bad dreams, headaches, memory blanks, and sleepwalking. “The Mad Hatter and the March Hare hold their tea parties, but the tea is blood. The Dormouse sits in the corner, counting the money.” The last entry was, “Day and night, darkness bright, he has the sight and feeds it on their sorrow. Bright and mad, deceiving sad, take what they had and bring them death tomorrow. WHY CAN’T I REMEMBER?” with the last sentence circled.
• McNab found a memo cube with a recording of her in a trance, saying “In my circle the door is closed. Nothing passes through. Safe and quiet mind, safe and quiet mind. Too much blood! Too much. What have I done? Help me see. Blue smoke, blue light. Too many voices. Quiet, be still.” Then there was some weeping, then “I found my strength after the lies. These are just more. I didn’t see. I didn’t know. Bright. It hurts to see. It hurts to know. Blood on my hands. So much blood. Bright blood. A lie, see through the lie to truth. Simon. Zacari. Roland. Carroll, and more and more. One truth in the lies. Where is the truth? All are death. That is the truth. Now rest, just rest, mind, body, spirit. Know his truth is death, and don’t follow.”
• She was unknowingly recruiting wealthy clients for Dr. Bright (Louis Carroll Ravenwood) - his assistant, Willow Bateman, added drugs to her tea when she requested a consultation, and he got names from her list.