# Peter Steele
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Peter Steele was an extravagant professor of psychology with a passion for music, who founded a small private detective agency in [[Locations:Boston]] with his friends [[Characters: Karen Ballion]] and [[Characters: Frank Jones]].

Following the Case of [[Locations: Corbitt's House]] and the death of Frank Jones, they were forced to flee from Boston to [[Location:Arkham]], which had set in motion a long chain of events, involving an encounter with the [[Monsters: Eater of Sins]], a murder mystery that revolved around the death of Peter's acquaintance, professor [[Characters: Charles Leiter]] of Miskatonic University and stolen Witch Trials Papers.

In January 1925 he was among the friends of [[Characters: Jackson Elias]] who arrived to [[Locations:New York]] on his behest and witnessed Jackson's brutal murder in room 410 of [[Locations: Chelsea Hotel]] by the [[Organizations:Cult of the Bloody Tongue]].

According to the last will of Jackson Elias, Peter, along with Karen Ballion, [[Characters:Ivan Zygzytsia]] and [[Characters: Shaun Lanetti]] was hired by [[Characters: Carlton Ramsey]], the late Jackson's lawyer and executor of estate, to track down the [[Organizations: Carlysle Expedition]], as well as investigate the murder of Elias.
 
While doing that, Peter had successfully faced [[Characters: Mukunga M'Dari]] in hand-to-hand combat, fought off zombies, learned how to summon a zombie himself, and faced the many-faced horror of [[Monsters: Chacota]]. Sadly, his budding relationship with a reporter [[Character: Rebecca Shoshenberg]] had been cut short after she was kidnapped by the Bloody Tongue and made into a part of Chacota.

Peter also made a profitable acquaintance with [[Character: Erica Carlisle]], managing to secure a number of books from her library before traveling to [[Location: London]], following the trail of the Carlysle Expedition.

Soon after setting his foot in the Old Albion, he visited the [[Locations: Blue Pyramid]] club, where he first met [[Characters: Yaleesha Essam]]. That same night Peter had a risky romantic encounter with [[Characters: Zahra Shafiq]] - a captivating Egyptian spice merchant and the High Priestess of [[Organizations: The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]]. Escaping her shop alive, but, alas, not unscathed, he met up with his fellow investigators and accompanied them on their detour to the house of [[Characters: Miles Shipley]], a deranged painter with somewhat of an otherworldly perspective. There his dabbling knowledge of black magic served him and his companions well, as he managed to summon a zombie while being trapped in the basement, which caught Miles and his "mother" [[Characters: Bertha Shipley]] by surprise.

Along with Karen Ballion and Ivan Zygzytsia, he was captured by the The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh and taken to [[Locations: Misr House]] to be sacrificed in their big monthly ritual. In the nick of time, he was saved from this gruesome fate by Yaleesha Essam, [[Characters: James Barrington]] and [[Characters: Mickey Mahoney]]. Despite being wounded, he took active part in killing Zahra Shafiq and escaped the claws of a [[Monsters: Hunting Horror]].

In a short period of safety after escaping the Misr House and before traveling to Derbyshire, Peter and Yaleesha developed a close (if tragically brief) and romantic relationship, fueled by passion, danger and common musical taste.

Peter suffered his demise in [[Locations: Henson Manufacturing]] factory in Derbyshire by the hand of [[Characters: Frank Marshall]], the foreman and another high-ranking member of The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh.