# Miss Sullivan — The Dead Letter character guide

> Miss Sullivan in The Dead Letter by Metta Victor.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** this Miss Sullivan

**First appearance:** 0003-part-i-iv-moreland-villa

## Snapshot

An elusive sewing-girl whose fragile existence becomes the pivot on which a murder investigation turns, pursued across miles by men desperate to reach her in time.

## Who they are

Known only as Leesy Sullivan, she haunts the margins of the case as a figure whose testimony could either convict or exonerate. Mr. Burton's feverish anxiety to find her alive before the voyage ends suggests she holds a secret others would kill to suppress. Her poverty and obscurity make her vulnerable, yet her very survival becomes the thread on which the pursuit of justice depends.

## In the story

### [III: The Confession](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dead_letter_se/chapters/part-ii-iii-the-confession)

Consumptive and failing, she confesses the story of George Thorley and her guardianship of little Nora.

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