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ulia's
circle of friends and acquaintances features a number |
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in one way or another in her activities and make her daily routine more
interesting. She has a platonic, almost brotherly, relationship with the
private investigator Leo Baxter, the head of Baxter Investigations, who has
a very meek and gentle character, with a tendency to a rather ironic
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| But in the typical tradition of private-eye American
literature he is somehow always landed with action roles that are full of
violence. Leo is a fine-looking guy, fair-haired and with a handsome physique,
particularly attracted to the opposite sex - especially black women! And the
attraction is almost always mutual. Despite his appearance as a good-time guy,
he is a man with a wide range of interests and very well read, which means he
can provide good support for Julia's investigations at all |
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levels. He has an aviation pilot's licence, he's not keen on using a car and he prefers to travel by underground.
Julia has a long-standing relation with law enforcement agencies. She is entrusted with
cases by Michael H. Robson, the District Attorney, a very determined and uncompromising prosecutor,
for whom in the past she solved a famous case. Robson is a portly fifty-year-old, with an affable manner and a penetrating gaze,
who beneath his general air of surliness and bluff manner actually has a extremely shrewd
mind capable of brilliant deduction. He is also inevitably mixed up in politics, and that's
why there's bad blood between him and Police Officer Alan Webb.
Webb is another figure who plays a substantial role in
Julia's life. Hot-tempered and harsh-mannered, Officer Webb adopts a
straight-talking no-nonsense approach both in his investigations and in his
relations with the glamorous criminologist, whom he woos in his own way - a
way wich is so idiosyncratic that it's incomprehensible |
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even to
Julia. The pair frequently have loud raucous arguments, resulting from a
different approach to their work and, perhaps, to life. But one thing they
share is the condition of being single: Officer Webb lives alone. In his
investigations he's invariably helped by Sergeant "Big" Ben Irving, who
is decidedly overweight, but reliable and well-trained.
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