Cast of Characters
- Nero Wolfe — The private investigator
- Archie Goodwin — Wolfe's assistant, and the narrator of all Wolfe stories
- Lily Rowan — Manhattan socialite and heiress who is Archie's main romantic interest throughout the corpus
- Amy Denovo — Smith graduate hired by Lily Rowan to assist in collecting material for a book about Lily's father
- Elinor Denovo — Amy's mother, killed in a hit-and-run three months before
- Lon Cohen — Of the Gazette
- Inspector Cramer and Sergeant Purley Stebbins — Of Manhattan Homicide South
- Mortimer Hotchkiss and Mr. Atwood — Of Continental Bank and Trust
- Avery Ballou — A director of the Seaboard Bank and Trust Company
- Cyrus M. Jarrett — Of Seaboard
- Bertram McCray — A vice president of Seaboard; formerly Cyrus M. Jarrett's secretary and protégé
- Eugene Jarrett — Son of Cyrus M. Jarrett, and a vice president of Seaboard
- Floyd Vance — public relations counselor
- James O'Dell Worthington — Physician
- Doc Vollmer — Physician and neighbor to Nero Wolfe
- Salvatore Manzoni — Waiter
- Nathaniel Parker — Nero Wolfe's attorney
- Dorothy Sebor — Of Sebor Shopping Service, Rockefeller Center; "You are the most beautiful woman I ever laid eyes on," Archie tells her
- Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin and Orrie Cather — Freelance detectives employed by Wolfe
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