Jack Diamond Mystery Adventures
Featured Character Bios, Settings, Trivia
Jack Diamond,
Private Investigator: Here’s what we know about Jack from the beginning.
Other details tend to emerge from time to time in his various cases.
Jack, physique
wise, seems to be about average coming in just shy of 6 feet tall and hovering
around 185 pounds. When we first run into Jack he is in his late 40’s. No
doubt, like all of us, he’ll take on a year or two as he tackles his various
mystery adventure cases. As the years move on so does the hairline. His auburn
brown hair is already beginning to she sign of receding along with a notable
thinning spot on top.
Jack Diamond is
not known as a womanizer in any manner, just the same certain women appear to
find aspects of his personality attractive and tend to act accordingly. This
alone leads to some interesting situations including a little romantic intrigue
and an unexpected dramatic surprise or two along the way.
So far as we know,
Jack Diamond has never been married and has no children. Though we never learn
all the circumstances, Jack Apparently inherited a substantial sum of money
while he was in his late 30’s and working as a freelance investigator. The
inheritance allowed him to open his own practice, purchase all the necessary
accruements, some maybe not so necessary, and hang out his shingle.
No private eye
would be worth his salt without a quirk or two, principle of among them, Jack’s
chronometer collection. His office is almost to the point of clutter with
timepieces of all types and sizes. Jack is the first to admit that with one
watch you always know what time it is, with as many as he has, you never know
what time it ‘really’ is.
Jack would never
consider himself a car buff, but he does enjoy good automobiles from the small
sports car variety to four wheel drive SUV’s. When you first meet Jack Diamond
you’ll find him behind the wheel of a black BMW 850 sedan with Nevada sunset
design license vanity plate, LOC8EM. The big white Land Rover with heavy tint
windows sports the plate, LOC8IT. Certainly beats having of those magnetic
advertising signs stuck to the side doors.
We know Jack
Diamond comes originally from the Denver, Colorado area where he attended
school up through university. From time to time more of that aspect of his past
emerge through details in cases. Following college Jack completed his Marine
Corps officer training at Quantico, Virginia. From that point all we really
know thus far is that he was assigned to a special criminal investigation unit
within the Commandant’s office. It was this early experience that established
Jack’s eventual Career path as well as creating any number of contacts that
prove valuable in his solving cases.
Foremost among
Jack’s early professional colleagues is his close personal friend and
confidant, police captain Hank Mathis. Captain Mathis commands the Metropolitan
Police Criminal Investigation Division. In addition to providing Jack with his
official link to law enforcement, a contact which he utilizes frequently, the good
captain is also Jack’s regular coffee buddy.
There are two
other highly valued information sources that stem from Jack’s Marine Corps CID
days. Jon Steele feeds Jack with a steady stream of generally reliable
information concerning all matters related to transportation. While we find Jon
Steele popping up frequently we really know very little about him or exactly
how he manages to come by the information he provides Jack. This is one of
those cases where Jack would be lost without him and is as curious as we care
about how Jon really works, but he dare not ask.
Andy Thornton is Jack’s key source for all kinds of
information relating to finance and banking matters. Andy play an especially
important role in many of Jack’s investigations that evolve around some aspect
of what is generally regarded as white collar crime. Like Jon Steele, Jack
Diamond protects his sources believing the less he knows about how they come by
the information they provide him the better for everyone involved, except for
the ‘bad guys’ of course.
Melissa
Blanchard: Otherwise known as ‘Mel’ to Jack Diamond and selected close
friends. We first meet Melissa in ‘A Matter Of Trust’, the first book in the
Jack Diamond series. I think you’ll find Melissa’s character becomes pretty
well described after she enters Jack’s office and leaves him breathless and in
the same condition on he departure.
Beside her
stunning physical attributes that find her able to look Jack eye-to-eye then
descending all the way down her perfectly endowed body to her long gorgeous
dancers legs Melissa’s other stats are - - -; Oh yes, Raven hair, dark eyes,
flawless olive skin and a sharp wit and brain to match.
Born: Boonville,
Missouri (She is 20 +- when we first meet her.)
Grew up in
Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Is now a student at the University of Nevada Las
Vegas (UNLV). She was drawn there because of their highly taunted girls dance
squad where her talents resulted in a partial scholarship.
SETTING: All
the Jack Diamond Mystery Adventures begin and end in Las Vegas. From there the
adventures come and go around the country and generally to far-flung corners of
the globe as well. Jack’s office building the Bristol Office Park does not
exist neither does his apartment complex. Many of the street names as well as
certain business establishments are real, however they may not be exactly where
they appear in the story. After all, these are works of fiction.
