The antagonist of the story is the young, beautiful
Lily Carver. At first, she seems like the innocent roommate of Berga Torn (the
victim). It is later revealed that she was behind the death of the original
Lily Carver and Berga Torn, and that she herself is not Lily- she is an
imposter. She only killed them because her lover, Doctor Soberin, had to cover
himself up. She is described as beautiful and “full-figured”.
As for traits, I would say for the first she is VERY
sneaky and manipulative. She befriended Mike and played him up only to use in
her plan. She only reveals herself in the last pages of the book, after Hammer
kills Dr. Soberin. Mike even let her stay with him and kept her safe (away from
the authorities, as they would probably know that the real Lily was dead). He
kept her up to date on how the case was going- a big mistake.
It is never said who she really is. She is
discovered to be horribly scorched from her knees to her neck from fire, but
she keeps this masked under a robe the entire book. She shoots Mike with his
own gun in the end, but as she leans in to whisper to him, he flicks his
lighter against her and sets her on fire, and then escapes. My reason for
saying she is sneaky? Well, she gains his trust and betrays him in the end AND
she works with the secondary antagonist.
I would also say she is timid (at least when she is
acting. Assume that you don’t know she is the antagonist yet.) When Mike is
gone, she double locks the doors and when he comes back she is shaking. She
also runs away from his apartment when someone tries to come into the
apartment. She is found in the basement having a mini panic attack. It is later
revealed that this is all part of an act, so I guess you could also say she is
a good actress. She didn’t run out of fear; she ran because she thought the two
hired men would kill Mike and she wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore.
Unfortunately for her, Mike killed them and stuck them underneath a dead end
sign.
Mike had to track her down; after Berga’s death she
cleared out of her apartment because 1( Berga had been paying the rent, and 2(
because she didn’t want to be recognized by the police when they came snooping
through the apartment looking for clues. Her appearance (other than what I
mentioned above) is that she has platinum blonde hair and scarlet red lips. She
often wears a robe.
Would I want HER as a friend? MOST CERTAINLY NOT! I
don’t like psychopathic killers that go to jail (if a normal cop catches them)
or are brutally murdered (if a made up detective catches them). She has no good traits in her whatsoever. I
wish that the book had gone into more depth with her character, and I wish for
once that the author WOULDN’T KILL PEOPLE OFF! I’d love to hear their full
confessions, and see them put behind bars- not slaughtered, shot, and burned.
Maddie
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