Eleanor later learned that the money had come from Chicago Outfit associate Joseph Marconi, and she became indebted to Quillen for a $200 weekly street-tax, occasionally running surveillance on various individuals for Marconi. Shortly after she arrived in Las Vegas, she looked up Patsy's uncle Terrence Quillen, who staked her poker career. She lived in a cheap, sparsely furnished apartment on Sands Avenue. In one case, Bosch said he received a Christmas card from her from Tehachapi, but that prison had switched to men only in 1952.Īfter she was released, Eleanor became a professional poker player in Las Vegas, rotating among several casinos – including the Mirage, the Flamingo, and Harrah's – that hosted live poker tables. She was sentenced to serve time at a prison for women where she met fellow inmate Patsy Quillen. She turned herself in and accepted a plea bargain. Bosch pursued Rourke, and Eleanor was forced to kill Rourke to save Harry's life. She began a romantic relationship with Bosch while at the same time deceiving him about her role in the crimes they were investigating. She first met Harry Bosch when he was investigating the death of Billy Meadows. This resulted in the tunnel break-ins of WestLand National Bank and Beverly Hills Safe and Lock. Finding that Rourke was open to corruption, she talked him into a plan to steal diamonds owned by Ngo Van Binh and Nguyen Tran. Because she used her ex-husband's last name, Rourke never knew who she was. had been motivated by the intent to work for Rourke and to investigate her brother's death. Her supervisor there was John Rourke.Įleanor began looking into the people who might know something about her brother's death, namely Art Franklin, Gene Delgado, and her boss, John Rourke. She began with the bureau in the white-collar crime unit in Washington D.C., later requesting a transfer to the bank-robbery/kidnap unit in the L.A. Her brother died under suspicious circumstances near the end of the Viet Nam war, and this probably influenced her decision to go into law enforcement. She attended Penn State University as a criminal justice major with a minor in accounting before being recruited into the FBI. In terms of her personality, Eleanor is a risk-taker and sometimes exhibits very poor judgement about other people and herself. She lived in a rent-controlled townhouse near the beach in Santa Monica, a short commute to the Federal Building in Westwood. She was married and divorced some years prior to meeting Bosch and she kept her husband's surname.

She had a dark tan and wore little makeup. She was a petite, lithesome woman with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair with blonde highlights, dark eyes and a small, crescent shaped scar on her chin, the result of a childhood accident. 13 Sept 2009) was the younger sister of Michael Scarletti, the ex-wife of Harry Bosch, and the mother of Madeline Bosch.

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