I had two further details from this book that I wasn't sure where to mention...
Speaking of imaginary previous cases, Bascom refers to another one that happened about two years earlier: "Remember the clerk that didn't see the guy lifting the emeralds because he was sneezing?"--emeralds again! I suddenly wonder if these are the same emeralds that were involved in Fer de Lance's remembered car chase with "Young Graves". *g*
And, on an entirely different note, Archie gets irked at not currently being the Man! Of! Action!: "It seems as if I'm like a piece of antique furniture or a pedigreed dog, I'm in the luxury class. You keep me on for beauty."
I enjoy fan stories that pick up this issue, from both angles--Archie chafing when he starts to feel like a kept boy, but also Wolfe's desire to surround himself with beauty. In the back of my edition of Fer de Lance, they included a typed memo by Rex Stout from 1949, giving character descriptions of Wolfe and Archie, as well as descriptions of the ground floor of the brownstone, concentrating on the office. And it has the line, "Wolfe permits nothing to be in [the office] that he doesn't enjoy looking at, and that has been the only criterion for admission." Well, I ask you. *waves hands around*
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Speaking of imaginary previous cases, Bascom refers to another one that happened about two years earlier: "Remember the clerk that didn't see the guy lifting the emeralds because he was sneezing?"--emeralds again! I suddenly wonder if these are the same emeralds that were involved in Fer de Lance's remembered car chase with "Young Graves". *g*
And, on an entirely different note, Archie gets irked at not currently being the Man! Of! Action!: "It seems as if I'm like a piece of antique furniture or a pedigreed dog, I'm in the luxury class. You keep me on for beauty."
I enjoy fan stories that pick up this issue, from both angles--Archie chafing when he starts to feel like a kept boy, but also Wolfe's desire to surround himself with beauty. In the back of my edition of Fer de Lance, they included a typed memo by Rex Stout from 1949, giving character descriptions of Wolfe and Archie, as well as descriptions of the ground floor of the brownstone, concentrating on the office. And it has the line, "Wolfe permits nothing to be in [the office] that he doesn't enjoy looking at, and that has been the only criterion for admission." Well, I ask you. *waves hands around*