Anne Manx

* **Warning!** **Some of the content in this article is sourced from information featured in the Anne Manx audio series and the Lives of the Cat novellas.**
* **Alert!** **The article is about the character. If you are looking for the audio series, here is the link. If you are looking for the book series, here is the link.**

Editing of this article is disabled.
*“Aside from me, Annie Manx is the most kick-ass cop I’ve ever known. She never runs from a challenge, and while events may test her moral underpinning, she still finds a way to emerge victorious.” - Jean Richmond*

## Anne Manx

### Affiliation

Intergalactic Police Force (2211-2223)Independent Private Eye (2223-)

## Appearances

### Debut

Lives of the Cat Audio Drama (2000)

*“Aside from me, Annie Manx is the most kick-ass cop I’ve ever known. She never runs from a challenge, and while events may test her moral underpinning, she still finds a way to emerge victorious.” - Jean Richmond*

Anne Manx (b. August 14, 2194) is a half-human, half-Baldurian intergalactic private eye, who has a reputation for being one of the best private eyes in the galaxy. She is the only child of Intergalactic Police Force detective, Arthur Manx and Helen LeVan, a Baldurian and possessor of the four genetic markers of pure and extremely rare Baldurian blood that gives the person nine lives. Anne has inherited her mother’s blood, and the ability to survive from wounds that would have killed humans, has earned her a reputation as “the cop who can’t be killed.”

In **2211**, Anne enters the IPF Academy to begin her police training. She meets Jean Richmond, and the two complete their four years as the top two cadets in the class. While Anne barely edges out Jean, the two alternatively won top scores in various marksmanship and piloting competitions during their time there. In their sophomore year, Jean begins dating Captain Jack Reynolds, and the two are serious. At this point, details of what happens next seem confused. The following is Anne’s narrative -- During Anne and Jean’s junior year, Jack’s affections turn to Anne, and the two begin dating. Jean becomes more and more jealous. Yet, it’s not until 10 years later that Jean gets her revenge and kills Jack. Jean flees from her work with the IPF and becomes a criminal, wanted throughout the galaxy. It also begins a years long, ongoing feud between the two of them that promises not to end until Anne has gotten her revenge and that is to kill Richmond. However, Jean’s perspective is nearly the polar opposite, and the real truth is difficult to pin down. In Richmond’s version of the years subsequent to their IPF Academy time, she remains with the force and ultimately rises to captain, while Anne goes off and becomes a private eye whose career is no longer tethered to any kind of morality whatsoever. Nothing gets in the way of her solving a case for her client. If she has to kill, trade sexual favors, deal in illegal merchandise, Anne will do it. There’s some logic to this perspective since Anne’s father Arthur was killed when she was 10, and that forced her mother to work constantly just to provide. Anne was virtually alone to raise herself.

In **2214**, Anne graduates from the IPF Academy at the head of her class and, as a result, is immediately assigned to the Northeast sector. The following year, she is involved in the Munitions Warehouse Case, where she apparently receives a mortal gunshot wound to her stomach, yet she revives minutes later, completely healed. This incident is the first of several more times during her private eye career where she receives fatal wounds only to fully regenerate. She learns from her Aunt Jenny (Arthur’s sister) that it's because of her Baldurian genes.

In **2223**, Anne leaves the IPF at the age of 29, tired of spending more of her times as the “face” of the IPF. She forms her own private eye firm because “I want to solve crimes,” as she told her bosses. Manx Leaves IPF to Form Her Own Private Eye Firm

In 2211, after 10 years, Manx decided she was no longer satisfied with being a glamours face for the force, and she left to open her own private eye firm.

## **Ann Manx’s Most Famous Cases as a Private Eye**

The Chromius Plot

The Ring of Minotour

The Empress Blair Case

The Amazonia Princesses

The Case of the Black Knight

The Butterfield Nine Visitors

The Woman in the Mauve Dress

The Return of Brighid

The Gift of Gab

The Librarian’s Ring

## **Regenerative Powers**

Because Anne’s mother was a Baldurian ancient, Anne acquired the ancient Baldurian to regenerate nine times before they actually died. A legend existed that would enable a pure Baldurian to actually get a complete pure blood transfusion and receive an additional nine lives, but there had been no evidence that this was true. Anne explores the legend’s veracity when she visits Baldur in Anne Manx and the Blood Chase.