Kate Gandor

Kate Gandor is a former musician that plays for silent movies and the wife of mobster Keith Gandor. She plays a minor role in the omitted events of the 1932 storyline Drugs and Dominos.

Personality
Despite being a wife of a renowned mob boss, Kate is actually very kind and welcoming to strangers due to the current situation of the Depression. She is known to be a very hospitable woman and allows guests to join her for dinner, though her husband never makes it home due to the nature of his work, she loves him none the less and is supportive of him. Of all people in the Baccano universe, her mysterious and inviting demeanour is the only one capable of making the silent Keith Gandor able to speak more than a few words, which were very highly sought of in the Daily Days and other organizations.

Storyline
She opens the book with a small introduction as her music silently plays over the streets of New York.

She appears later in the novel when visiting the office of the Gandor Brothers, running into Roy Maddock and Eve Genoard. Mistaking them for associates, she invites the two to her home and treats them to dinner and explains her motivations in staying by the silent Keith's side, she was once a pianist for silent films and at the turn of the century where talkies became viable, she was left jobless and Keith eventually sought her out to play more pieces of music for him, eventually they marry. After dinner, she plays a beautiful piece of music to entertain the duo while they wait for Keith in order to meet with the younger Luck Gandor. Eve and her get along however Roy remains distant due to his plans in using Eve for a hostage. They part ways eventually with Eve promising to make time to visit them once the situation is over.

She closes the book with a beautiful note that resonates through the streets of the city in the wake of the Gandor-Runoratta turf war, signifying well wishes to the main protagonists in the storyline.