Counterfeit for Murder 1961
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Hattie Annis
Austin Eugene Briggs (1909 - 1973)
Illustrated by Austin Briggs, "The Counterfeiter's Knife" was serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (January 14–28, 1961)Austin Briggs illustration for "The Counterfeiter's Knife," a Nero Wolfe novella by Rex Stout that first appeared serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and was subsequently collected in the book Homicide Trinity (1962) as "Counterfeit for Murder"
Cast of characters[edit]
- Nero Wolfe — The private investigator
- Archie Goodwin — Wolfe's assistant (and the narrator of all Wolfe stories)
- Hattie Annis — Owner of a boardinghouse for actors
- Tammy Baxter — Treasury Department agent and murder victim
- Raymond Dell, Noel Ferris, Paul Hannah and Martha Kirk — Boarders at Miss Annis's establishment
- Albert Leach — Another Treasury Department agent
- Inspector Cramer and Sgt. Purley Stebbins — Representing Manhattan Homicide
- Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, and Orrie Cather—Wolfe's preferred free-lance detectives
The unfamiliar word[edit]
In most Nero Wolfe novels and novellas, there is at least one unfamiliar word, usually spoken by Wolfe.
- ". . . of Ormus and of Ind." Chapter 2, spoken by Raymond Dell, quoting from Paradise Lost.
Counterfeit for Murder: "Wolfe doesn't flabbergast easy, but that did it."
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