Sharon DeBlass

DeBlass, Sharon - Licensed Companion

Appeared in Naked in Death (c. February 13-22, 2058), mentioned in Survivor in Death (October, 2059), and referenced in New York to Dallas (Late summer, 2060)

Personal Information

• Description: She was beautiful; a cameo face with a tumbling waterfall of flaming red hair and emerald eyes
• DOB: c. 2034
• Age at TOD: 24
• Hair: Red
• Eyes: Green
• Address: 1803, 27 West Broadway, New York, NY (Gorham Complex)
• Relationships: Richard DeBlass (father); Elizabeth Barrister (mother); Justin Summit (uncle); Catherine DeBlass (aunt); Gerald DeBlass (grandfather); Anna DeBlass (grandmother)
• Occupation: Licensed Companion

Description

• Caucasian with long, milk white limbs.
• Sebastian described her as physically stunning and said it would be impossible for anyone not to be attracted to her sexually; she exuded sex. She had a charming little temp tattoo of a red-winged butterfly on her left buttock.

Personality

• She had expensive taste, had a love affair with clothes, and took scrupulous care of what she owned. She kept good records and had been a very popular girl.
• Sebastian, her salon consultant, said she had flawless taste, a generous heart, and rapier wit. He said she enjoyed living on the edge (she was a free spirit) and flaunting it all under her family’s aristocratic noses.
• When describing Sharon and himself, Charles said he was more conventional in style while Sharon was open to the unusual; she didn’t mind violence. He also said that Sharon had a lot of bitterness toward her family.
• According to Roarke, Sharon wanted power; power over her clients, over herself, and most of all, she wanted power over her family. She liked excitement and risk and didn’t flinch from causing those who loved her embarrassment. Yet she was pitiable. There was something sad about her... her body was the only thing about herself she respected. She was a role player.
• She had a disdain for men and was very clever.

History

• Charles and Sharon had been neighbors for more than three years and they would, occasionally work together if a client requested a trio.
  • If one of them was in the mood for a busman’s holiday, the other usually obliged; it was rare for them.
• Sharon told Charles that she’d never planned on making a career out of professional sex. She’d only gotten into it to make her family crazy; but then, after she got into it, she decided she liked it.
• Sharon always kept a diary, even as a child; she changed the password regularly (she kept her diaries in a deposit box).

History with Gerald DeBlass

• Catherine, her aunt, knew that Gerald raped Sharon as she had been raped; she wanted to help, but didn’t know how. And then Sharon turned it around on him.
• It was Christmas Day when Catherine heard Sharon and Gerald arguing. She threatened to expose him unless he paid her as she had everything documented. Then she said that he could still have her, if he was willing to pay just like any other client. When he grabbed her, Sharon looked over his shoulder at Catherine, who had been listening in the doorway.

Homicide Information

• TOD: 2:00 a.m., February 12, 2058
• First victim in Naked in Death; the killer called in the murder (video, no audio).
  • On February 12, 2058, the elevator surveillance system of the Gorham Complex had a glitch beginning at 12:05 a.m. and ending at 2:46 a.m.
• She was lying underneath small, soft focused spotlights in the middle of her huge bed. The floating mattress moved with obscenely graceful undulations to the rhythm of programmed music slipping through the headboard.
• She had been shot three times; once in her forehead, once in her chest, and once in her genitalia. Her body had been left positioned, spread lewdly in an X, dead center of the bed. A video of her murder was made and sent to Eve Dallas; there was a jostle of the camera and a ragged breath.
• The weapon left on-scene was a Smith & Wesson, Model Ten (blue steel) .38 revolver (c. 1990). According to Feeney, an antique like that would go for eight, ten thousand for a legal collection; twice that one the black market.
• Between Sharon’s body and the mattress, Eve found a sealed sheet of paper that read, “ONE OF SIX.” It looked hand printed.
• When Eve revisited the scene, she saw that Sharon’s shoe boxes were rearranged differently from how Eve had found them or the way she left them. Some of her jewelry had also been tangled.
• Murdered by Gerald DeBlass with Derrick Rockman as an accomplice, after the fact.

Interesting Facts

• Sharon lived on the eighteenth floor of the Gorham Complex; Charles Monroe was her neighbor.
• Sharon was licensed for men and women and was adventurous. Sebastian said that all of her clients had to meet certain standards. Appearance, intellect, breeding, and proficiency.
• She used the Trident Clinic for her required monthly health exam and Paradise for her weekly trip to the beauty salon (a half day standing appointment, while every other week, she had a full day); Sebastian said he saw her two days ago.
• Sharon had Roarke’s private number stored in her small gold-edged palm computer along with other high-powered names in politics and entertainment. She met Roarke at a party and had been attracted to him. Later, she had dinner with him in Mexico at his villa on the west coast.
• Sharon had a safe-deposit box and a brokerage account at Brinkstone International Bank and Finance in Newark, New Jersey. In the box, Eve found a blackmail list; Edward Simpson’s name was on it.
• She also had a safe-deposit box under the name of Annie Monroe at First Manhattan, a bank on Madison; this was where she kept her diaries.
• When Catherine went to see Sharon in New York, Sharon said that she had chosen her way but that her own (Sharon’s) was better.