Purgatory – An upscale club, triple-leveled, with a stage on the main, dance floors on one and two and privacy rooms ringed around the top. Owned by Roarke Entertainment, a subsidiary of Roarke Industries in Judgment in Death.[1] Roarke bought Purgatory from Max Ricker about four[2] or five years ago.[3] Purgatory closed at 3 a.m. with the staff clocking out at 3:30 a.m.; the last show, of musicians and strippers, ends at 2 a.m. and those employees clock out at that time.[4] The uniform, at least for the bartenders, was a black shirt and black slacks.[5]
Purgatory was named such as Roarke liked it and, as priests would say, Purgatory was a place of atonement or rehabilitation. Roarke had always seen it as a last chance to be human.[4]
Employees included:
- Rue MacLean (manager)
- Nester Vine
- Taj Kohli (bartender/deceased)
- Dancers/Strippers:
- YANNI
- ”How many [security] cameras?” Roarke took out his pad, checked data. “Eighteen. Nine on this floor, six on two, and the other two on the top level for full scope.” (Correct answer: 9+6+2=17)[6]
References:
- ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 5
- ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 7
- ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 230
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 8
- ↑ Judgment in Death, Chapter 4
- ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 293