Cast of Characters
- Nero Wolfe — Private investigator
- Archie Goodwin — Wolfe's assistant (and narrator of all Wolfe stories)
- Otis Jarrell — Millionaire
- Trella Jarrell — Otis Jarrell's second wife
- Lois Jarrell — Otis Jarrell's daughter by his first wife, and a good dancer
- Wyman Jarrell — Otis Jarrell's son by his first wife
- Susan Jarrell — Otis Jarrell's daughter-in-law
- Roger Foote — Trella's brother
- Nora Kent — Stenographer
- James L. Eber — Ex-secretary
- Corey Brigham — Friend of the family
- Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, Orrie Cather, Dol Bonner, Sally Colt — Private detectives employed by Wolfe
- Inspector Cramer, Sergeant Purley Stebbins — Manhattan Homicide investigators
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