Cast of Characters
- Nero Wolfe, private detective
- Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's assistant, narrator of all the Wolfe stories
- Rachel Bruner, Wolfe's client, a wealthy business owner who, along with her family and employees, is being harassed by the FBI
- Sarah Dacos, Mrs. Bruner's secretary
- Morris Althaus, a writer whose murder is somehow connected to the FBI's activities in Manhattan
- Ivana Althaus, Morris's mother, who quotes both Leviticus and Aristotle on the subject of vengeance
- Richard Wragg, special agent in charge of the FBI's New York office
- Ashley Jarvis and Dale Kirby, actors hired to stand in for Wolfe and Goodwin, respectively
- Inspector Cramer, head of West Manhattan Homicide
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