Character details
- First Name
- Johnny
- Last Name
- Keems
- Notes
- Reserve manpower called in periodically. Looks like a Princeton boy with his face washed. With his satisfied handsomeness, Johnny unquestionably wants Archie's job, Archie believes; but Archie knows Wolfe would never be able to stand him.
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Hit by a car and killed in connection with the "Might as well be dead" case. "How much chance is there that he would have let a car kill him by inadvertance?" asks Wolfe
Character cases:
Ch. 8 - Archie plans to assign Keems to tail Chapin along with Durkin and Gore.
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Ch. 12 - at Wolfe's direction, is searching for Mike Walsh. Using code, Keems reports in that the police have picked up Walsh. Later, Wolfe orders Keems to find a means by which Archie can talk to Walsh at the construction site where he works without police detection.
Ch. 14 - returns to the brownstone and presents diagrams for the entrances Archie can use to meet secretly with Mike Walsh while he is at work. Stays around to cover for Archie while he is out.
Ch. 15 - arrives at the brownstone with a newspaper announcing Lord Clivers's arrest at the scene of Mike Walsh's murder.
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Ch. 11 - not immediately available, so he misses the opportunity to join Saul and Orrie for the search for the red box at Glennanne, McNair's country estate.
When not working for Wolfe (on this day he was working for Del Pritchard), Johnny had formed the habit on phoning in every morning to give Archie his whereabouts in case he is needed. In the time it took to type an authorization for Saul to take charge of McNair's cottage and grounds, Fred Durkin called in -- and Archie had his search party; no need for Keems.
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Wolfe assigned him to interview the female staff at Dunwoodie, Prescott, and Davis to see how the will could be altered.
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Finds out about Anne Tracy's father's stealing from the Dill Nurseries.
Brings Anne back to the brownstone (without orders).
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Mentioned.
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Wolfe sent Keems to investigate the Irwins and the Arkoffs to see if the invitation for Selma to accompany them to the theatre was contrived to get her out of the house for the murder.
Reserved notes for this caseHe bribes ythUncovers something *too* hot - he's deliberately murdered by a hit and run driver during this case.