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Our hero is Angela “Angie” Harpe, who we are informed is known as “The
Dark Angel” by the cops and the underworld. Like the Baroness, her
beauty and body is frequently mentioned in the narrative, as is her
expansive wardrobe, which as in the Baroness books
lends the series a trash fiction vibe. And again like the Baroness,
Angie is rich and lives the jet-set life, and her main home is a
penthouse suite in Manhattan which is described as a very swank
‘70s-style pad, though we learn she plays classical music on her hi-fi
instead of the more-expected Love Unlimited Orchestra or Barry White.
Angie has had a colorful history to say the least; she was raised in the
ghetto, but through her intelligence she was able to get into
Radcliffe, where she graduated with flying colors. Oh, but she also
worked as a hooker…before briefly serving as an NYPD cop(!!). She also
did some glamor modeling on the side to support herself while in college
(while still hooking as an independent, high-class escort), but also to
save up money so she could fund her true dream…being a private
detective! Like Killinger, Angie now handles big, multimillion-dollar cases for insurance companies.
So, again like the Baroness, Angie Harpe is idealized, but unlike the
Baroness she doesn’t come off as a self-centered glory hound. She gets
off on danger, and treats her cases with snarky aplomb, which lends the
series an intentional camp vibe, with Angie often poking fun at the
situations she encounters and the weird characters she meets. And she
meets a very weird character early in The Emerald Oil Caper, a lecherous old masked man who is chaffeured around in a big limo.