Murder with a Past

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DAVID TULLY: Rugged architect who tears down the façades of the town’s élite and builds a murder case from the rubble.

RUTH TULLY: David’s missing wife — a slim, dainty, sophisticate wanted for murder. Is she a fugitive from justice, or a victim of injustice?

LT. JULIAN SMITH: When murder falls into his carefully manicured hands, his excessive tidiness prompts him to cover it up, rather than dig into it.

CRANDALL COX: Gray-faced, slop-bodied caricature of a man with a misplaced third blue-black eye in the flab of his neck. Locus: morgue.

NORMA HURST: She hovers delicately between reality and fantasy.

SANDRA JEAN AINSWORTH: As tart as her tongue. Her orgies wrapped their tentacles around her sister, Ruth.

OLIVER HURST: Norma’s long-suffering husband who makes a great show of being normal, but his restless hands are busy: feeling, pulling, scratching, rubbing.

MAUDIE BLAKE: A sex pot who boiled too long and then spilled over; she heard too much and talked to the wrong people.

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