Veda was an exotic Indian dancer who married the wealthy American Peter Kane. She then put cobra poison on her lips to kill both Kane and his drunken son with a kiss, in order to gain their fortune. Her plot was foiled by Chic Carter. In addition to having the kiss of death, Veda kept a huge cobra in her room, that she worshiped as a god. She was said to move like a snake, and at least one observer said that she looked like a cobra.