Jessica Marlowe

Jessica Carlisle, maiden name Jessica Marlowe, is a historian, wife to Patrick Carlisle and sister to Allan Marlowe. She is a background character in The Death of Johnathan Taylor.

Patrick Carlisle fell in love with her when she was a PHD student, and they married after she gained her doctorate. The relationship waned, however, due to Patrick's drug habit and her growing interest in Johnathan Taylor.

Eventually she was persuaded by Taylor to take part in a scheme to extract money from Carlisle. Jessica went to a conference in Oxford, and Taylor contacted Carlisle saying he had kidnapped her and demanding a ransom, apparently backed up by the voice of a distressed Jessica, which he intended to later claim was taken from a play she was in.

This went wrong, however, when Carlisle sent Allan Marlowe to find Johnathan Taylor. When he found the Taylor's crooks and Jessica in a bar, tempers got heated, guns were drawn and Jessica was accidentally shot and killed.