Patrice (Dark Horse Poor)

Strategy

Opening Hand

Mulligan to try and get one of these combos:

Madame LaBranche, Patrice's Violin, Dark Horse

Meat Cleaver and Pete Sylvestre

LaBranche and Violin make it so that you can always get 2 resources on your turn, which is enough to play the "fortune" events from discard

Meat and Pete is a good primary combat combo, along with dark horse

Play assets as soon as you get them. Use Shrivelling and Sixth Sense as your primary combat/cluefinding tools, with standard boosts from all of the skills and events at your disposal (pun intended).

There is a strong chance that Winging It, Fortuitous Discovery and Improvised Weapon are in your discard - meaning you always have access to them! If they are in hand, pitch them for your violin or cornered. Use them situationally to beat up on enemies/get clues, and use skills plus Grisly Totem and eventually Cornered to make it work.

Upgrades

Cornered, duh

Miss Doyle, replacing Holy Rosary

Charisma

Sixth Sense, Shrivelling or Shards of the Void replacing Shrivelling

And if the XP flows, some nice adds would be Stargazing, Gravedigger's Shovel, Recall the Future, Alter Fate, and maybe Ward of Protection