 Her character is perhaps the root of her daughter's cool and dangerous outlook, and is certainly part of the reason Peter Burns becomes engaged to Cynthia, mainly out of sympathy.A bank-robber of the old school, Mr Finglass was known as "Finky" to his contemporaries, and is remembered for his spectacular theft of around two million dollars in bonds from the New Asiatic Bank.Unfortunately, he was forced to flee the country without his haul; when he later passes away in Buenos Aires prior to the events of "Sam the Sudden", he leaves instructions for finding it divided between his old pals Thomas "Soapy" Molloy and Alexander "Chimp" Twist.