Beautiful, deadly international femme fatale, Velvet is a seductive secret agent working for an unnamed foreign power who occasionally rears her lovely head in Port Nocturne. Exceptionally well trained and dangerous, she may even be a match for our heroine.

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Could Dahlia Blue, the sultry, satin-voiced songstress who holds court at Port Nocturne's most popular nightclub, the Club Selene, be the real identity of the mysterious Femme Noir? She's got red hair, but there are such things as wigs, and she is the girlfriend of PNPD police detective Rod Riley&

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Every city has at least one, and Dr. Karl Boroff is Port Nocturne's preeminent mad scientist. Let's face it, regardless of their methods, the world needs men that will probe fearlessly into the forbidden realms of "unconventional" science. And even though his colleagues may call him mad (he will admit only to being a bit ill-tempered), Boroff relentlessly pursues the answers to such burning scientific questions as: if you irradiate a corpse, will it return from the dead and kill your enemies at your command? What would happen if you transplanted a man's brain into the body of a silverback gorilla? If not for men like Karl Boroff, the world would never know.

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Due to a debt of honor, boyish blackjack dealer and sometime cabbie Billy Braddock has the misfortune of being the unwilling assistant and part-time driver of the Undead Avenger known as Brother Grim.

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Hulking mob enforcer who went to the electric chair for his crimes, only to be resurrected by Dr. Boroff and Madame MaCabre to do their will. Unfortunately for all involved, "Butcher" had plans of his own.

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Joe Capshaw is Editor of the Port Nocturne Eclipse, the citys biggest and most influential daily. In his Mid-fifties, Joes a large man, with a great deal of street smarts. An Old School newsman, the stogie-smoking, hard-drinking newshawks a pretty hardboiled customer himself.

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A psychotic, burly assassin with a fondness for Thompson machine guns, Chaney is a former DeMilo Family enforcer currently working as a freelance hitman, mostly for the Link Mob.

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Some people believe that the true identity of Femme Noir is Vanessa DeMilo, the daughter of Port Nocturnes recently deceased crime kingpin Don Gino DeMilo. Could this spoiled, rich, girl-about-town be avenging her familys honor by ridding the city of her late fathers rivals?

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Thin, rat-faced mobster with a penchant for expensive suits and long, thin knives, the ruthless, ambitious Vin Detta is the current head of the DeMilo organization.

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Twin automatics spit fiery fury. A ghastly laugh echoes along the dark streets and black alleys of Port Nocturne. And justice lies in the cold, steady hands of the Undead Avenger known as... BROTHER GRIM!! Port Nocturne's resident masked vigilante, Brother Grim is, in actuality, the reanimated corpse of Guido Grimaldi, a former DeMilo mob enforcer. Now he is a force of justice, battling evil and defending the city from the weird menaces that haunt the city's deepest shadows.

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Simeon was one of Don DeMilos top lieutenants until he committed two unpardonable sins: one he embezzled funds from The Outfit, and two he had an affair with Don DeMilos then-teenaged daughter, Vanessa. As punishment, he was kidnapped from his swank apartment and turned over to Karl Boroff for use in the mad scientists experiments. As a result, Links conniving brain now resides in the body of a silverback gorilla. He escaped from Boroff, and in the chaos following Don DeMilos death, has somehow managed to build a criminal organization that runs the West Side of Port Nocturne.

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Among many of the city's gossip mongers, Laurel Lye, star crime reporter for the Port Nocturne Eclipse, the citys largest daily newspaper, is considered a likely candidate to be the mysterious Femme Noir. A stunningly beautiful brunette with a sharp tongue, she does seem to scoop the rest of the citys newshawks when it comes to Noirs cases&

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The beautiful but deadly Madame Macabre is Port Nocturne's Queen of Vice. Operating out of her Marlowe Heights mansion,this diabolical dame has her well-manicured hands in virtually all of the city's most unsavory trades. Ruthless and ambitious, the Madame maintains a lucrative sideline in blackmail, but her ultimate goal is no less than complete dominion over Port Nocturne's underworld. To achieve this, she's not even above dabbling in the black arts and forbidden sciences...

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Trust us when we tell you that it takes a real tough guy to walk the mean streets of Port Nocturne, and the streets get even meaner when you're talking about the neighborhood known as Old Town. In Old Town, there's only two kinds of tough guy the dead and the deadly. Fortunately, slab-shaped shamus Red "Rusty" Nales is one of the latter. A two-fisted private dick with a .45 automatic named Lola, Nales is a hard-bitten ex-Marine with a bad haircut and a temper that's even worse.

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A suave, good-looking Englishman, Dean Paladyn is Port Nocturnes own "Robin Hood of crime," a dashing, charming adventurer and gentleman crime fighter. Independently wealthy, Paladyn travels the world looking for adventure so hes not around the city much. However, he does keep a penthouse apartment at the regal Chandler Arms Hotel.

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One phrase you rarely hear in Port Nocturne is: "honest cop." But if you do happen to hear it muttered in a cynical, derisive voice, there's only one man it could be applied to Chief of Detectives, Lieutenant Rod Riley. This square-jawed defender of the law is a bit of a joke to the rest of the force, but his unwavering pursuit of justice has made him a formidable presence on the streets of Port Nocturne. His passion for justice is rivaled only by his passion for nightclub chanteuse Dahlia Blue, with whom the straight-llaced cop is more than a little smitten.

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