Here are a couple of pages from the recent trade Femme Noir: The Dark City Diaries, Christopher Mills' homage to the hard-boiled detective pulps of yesteryear:
On the facing page, our mysterious narrator considers three possible alter-egos for our mystery woman. Do any of them seem at all familiar to anyone but me?
So who do you think she is? If you haven't already guessed, I'm rooting for Vanessa DeMilo, and not just because that's the greatest name ever.