| 1. | Give the full name, as far as known, of the following people: | |
| a. | The Chief Inspector of Homicide Fergus Cramer | |
| b. | His top sergeant Purley Stebbins | |
| c. | The lieutenant whom Archie dislikes Lieutenant George Rowcliff | |
| d. | Wolfe's chef Fritz Brenner | |
| e. | Wolfe's orchid man up in the plant rooms Theodore Horstmann | |
| f. | Wolfe's cleaning man Charlie | |
| g. | The owner of Wolfe's favorite restaurant Marko Vukcic | |
| h. | Archie's girl friend Lily Rowan | |
| i. | The three freelance detectives Wolfe uses regularly Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, and Orvald (Orrie) Cather | |
| j. | Wolfe's Lawyer Henry W. Barber. He later switched to Nathaniel (or Henry George ) Parker. | |
| k. | Archie's contact at the New York Gazette Harry Foster, later it was Lon Cohen | |
| l. | The doctor that Wolfe uses Dr. Edwin A Vollmer | |
| m. | Wolfe's adopted daughter Carla | |
| 2. | Wolfe occasionally used two other (male) detectives besides the usual three. | |
| a. | What are their names? Bill Gore and Johnny Keems. | |
| b. | One of them gets killed. In what way and in which story? Johnny (John Joseph) Keems was run over by a car and killed, in [MIGH] | |
| 3. | What are the names of the two female detectives Wolfe dealt with at times? Dol (Theodolinda ) Bonner and Sally Colt. | |
| a. | One of these has a whole book to herself. What is its title? Dol Bonner was the main character in "The Hand in the Glove". | |
| 4. | The Homicide Inspector mentioned above also is the protagonist in his own book. What is its title? Inspector Cramer was the main character in "Red Threads." | |
| 5. | The killer in one of the stories has the same last name as one of the "regulars" (mentioned in Question 1). | |
| a. | What is his full name? Beaky Durkin | |
| b. | What is the name of his counterpart? Fred Durkin | |
| c. | In which story does he appear in? [THIS] | |
| 6. | There were two people, not regulars or government officials, who appeared in two stories each. | |
| a. | Name each person Paul Whipple , and Avery Ballou (I'll accept Lewis Hewett only if you got the other two.) | |
| b. | Name the two stories in which each appeared [COOK] [RGHT]; [DOXY] [FATH] | |
| 7. | Wolfe's archenemy (a sort of Napoleon of crime, as Prof. Moriarity was to Sherlock Homes) appears in one story and is merely a phone caller in two others. Name this person, and the three stories. Arnold Zeck, phoned Wolfe in [ANDB] and [SCND] and actually appears in [BEST] | |
| 8. | Give the full name of Wolfe's contact in London. Wolfe's contact in London is Ethelbert (or Geoffrey) Hitchcock | |
| 9. | Give the full name of the Long Island orchid-grower who is mentioned in several of the stories. Lewis Hewitt | |
| a. | This man played a large part in one of the stories. Which one? He was the main suspect in [BLCK] | |
| 10. | What is the name of the cab driver that Archie used at times? Herb Aronson, Al Goller, and Mike Collins. | |
