'Little Miss’ May

A pickpocket and sometime bank robber in her late twenties.

Character Background
Sprung from jail in Monte Carlo ostensibly by MI6 and hypothetically by a group just finished clearing out the Grand Casino, these days Miss May possibly has bigger fish to fry.

[Editor: Secret information is secret until further notice.]

She is secretly acquainted with Mr Trent, Sgt James Shepherd and Alice McKenzie.

She is often heard saying things like, "How exciting!" and is apparently unimpressed by meeting dangerous criminals. She likes to make it clear that she is not the murdering type.

The Adventure of the Faithful Sergeant
May has recently travelled to York with the three mentioned previously for unspecified "work".

Under the direction of Mr Trent, May set out to sell papers she had stolen in London concerning Danish shipping in Greenland to Dr Tiffey. (She was advised that they would perhaps be worth something in the low £1000s but not to offer too much if he did not seem particularly excited.) The main purpose of this, she was told, was to gain Tiffey's trust. He did indeed offer her a job a number of times.

Later she was advised to put about the idea that Trent was not only 'not just a civil servant' but a corrupt MI6 agent, using his leverage to aid smuggling; and also to sell evidence of this and a more specific event to Miss Badger. All of these things (The Danish Shipping Distraction) were designed to persuade Twist and Tremelow separately that the other had gained something of significant value.

The ultimate purposes of May's actions were entirely unknown to her. She was apparently loyal in so far as she remained safe.

Towards the end of the day May discovered more about Shepherd and found herself surrounded by Twist and Tremelow agents (both still offering her jobs). They were apparently unconcerned about her presence even revealing the plan/desire to find and kill Mr Trent. Refusing offers of information on the basis that knowing too much can be bad for your health and following a perplexing call from Trent cheerfully still talking about Danish shipping when he should have been concerned for his life, May followed the action cautiously, ducking into an alleyway off the Shambles at the climatic stand-off and unwittingly leading Call-Me-Jack into Trent's grasp.

She met Elsie Winters as Winters went to guard the alley she was hiding in. Fortunately, nobody shot her in surprise.

May also stole one pencil, went through most of the other players' outside coat pockets (alas, nothing), lifted everything she touched from the shoot-out corpses and resisted shoplifting.