Tidbit Tuesday: From the "Writing Closet"- Angel's Alley Throwback

I am a packrat.

Which means I keep every little piece of paper I come across and then I forget about it until I do something like switch apartments.

Because then you have to separate your junk from everything else you own and get rid of it. Which in my case means you have to go through every drawer and open every folder and--well, read every piece of writing you come across to see if it's "keepable" or not.

Sometimes when you're clearing out all of your writing junk, you run across little things like this. So a little over two years ago, I wrote Angels Alley, and to help get my mind in the right place I wrote little life sketches for all my characters. Because, of course, that's what you do.

And then I lost half of them.

 Or so I thought.

So for this Tidbit Tuesday, we're going to do a mini-throwback. This is me apologizing to all my characters that I forgot(and Blogger keeps changing font color on me, so hopefully, it's readable; contains SPOILERS.)

NAME:  IVY CALLAHAN

ALSO KNOWN AS: Angel Eyes(Gyp)

AGE: 15-27(in series)

APPEARS IN: Not a Criminal, Angels Alley, Alley Cats

RELATIONSHIPS: Davey Callahan, older brother; deceased

Nick Callahan, older brother; SPOILER ALERT deceased by end of series

Johnny Moreno, childhood sweetheart, later husband

Julia and Mark Conlan, eventual brother and sister-in-law

MARITAL STATUS: Happily married to Johnny Moreno; Mother of six

IN LATER YEARS:  Wellesly College Graduate

Assists Johnny in running Junior Police

Mother of six; grandmother of fifteen; great-grandmother of two at time of

death.

DEATH: Natural causes; outlived husband Johnny Moreno by four years at time of death.
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NAME:  TONY MERRICK

ALSO KNOWN AS: Gyp, Mickey, Maxwell Garrison II

AGE:  13-late 20s(in series)

APPEARS IN: Like Wolves, Not a Criminal, Angels Alley, Alley Cats, Fire Escape,

Spider’s Web

RELATIONSHIPS: Davey Callahan, mentor

Nick Callahan, nemesis(whom he eventually kills)

Lita Haller, girlfriend--kinda/sorta

Kit, childhood friend; dies before adulthood

Ivy Callahan, “romantic target”

MARITAL STATUS: In a “relationship” with Lita Haller

IN LATER YEARS: 
Arrest record at 13

Misdemeanor record at 13

Framed David Callahan for murder at 17
Served sentence for attempted murder of Johnny Moreno at 17; released

and changed name(Alley Cats); arrested for forgery and released on bail.Changed name again(Fire Escape/ Spider’s Web) SPOILER ALERT and killed Nick Callahan

DEATH: Gunned down SPOILER ALERT by Ash Valerio following his murder of Nick Callahan; died instantly--reported DOA

Survived by “girlfriend” Lita Haller

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NAME:  MARK CONLAN

ALSO KNOWN AS: N/A

AGE: 17-20s(in series)

APPEARS IN: Like Wolves, Not a Criminal, Angels Alley

RELATIONSHIPS:  Johnny Moreno, younger brother-in-law

         Julia Moreno-Conlan, wife

         Nick and Ivy Callahan, protegees

MARITAL STATUS: Married to Julia, and happily so

          father of two; widower at time of death

IN LATER YEARS: Commissioner of Police, retired

        Assisted Johnny in Junior Police Club

       Assisted Nick in undercover operations

DEATH: Natural causes; widower at time of death; outlived wife by ten years

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NAME: JULIA CONLAN

ALSO KNOWN AS: Julia Moreno

AGE:  16(?)=20s(in series)

APPEARS IN: Like Wolves, Not a Criminal, Angels Alley

RELATIONSHIPS: Johnny Moreno, younger brother

        Mark Conlan(Vecchio), husband

        Nick and Ivy Callahan, brother and sister-in-law

        Lee Breslin, friend

MARITAL STATUS: happily married to Mark Conlan; mother of two at time of death

IN LATER YEARS: Instructor at Wellesly College; Graduate of same; Integral in union work

DEATH: Cancer

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NAME:  DAVID CALLAHAN

ALSO KNOWN AS: Davey

AGE: 17-23(in series)

APPEARS IN: Like Wolves, Not A Criminal

RELATIONSHIPS: Nick Callahan, younger brother

Ivy Callahan, younger sister

Mark Conlan, best friend

Tony “Gyp” Merrick, protegee

Lee Breslin, on-again-off-again-girlfriend

MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried at time of death

IN LATER YEARS: undercover operative with Mark Conlan; arrested for murder; tried and convicted

DEATH: Executed for murder 1942; exonerated posthumously