![]() ![]() The nickname given by her late brother John Dearheart was "Killer" which apparently he meant affectionately. She gives Moist fair warning about making fun of either, which, given his own name, he has no intention of doing. Moist's nickname for her is "Spike" a name she suits more than that suggested by the combination of her forenames, Adora and Belle (adorable) or her surname Dearheart. ![]() In spite of all this, Moist von Lipwig falls in love with her an affection which she gradually returns over the course of the novel. Because of what has happened to her father and brother, she is a cynical, angry, chain smoker, whose whereabouts can be determined by asking the tobacconists, or simply finding a huge cloud of cigarette smoke and heading toward the middle of it. ![]() She is the daughter of Robert Dearheart the inventor of the Clacks and sister to the deceased John Dearheart who has been murdered to prevent him starting a rival Clack network after his father lost the original network to the unscrupulous business magnate, Reacher Gilt. Adora Belle Dearheart is introduced in the novel Going Postal. ![]()
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