Character details
- First Name
- George
- Last Name
- Rowcliff
- Notes
- Lieutenant in NYPD. Has antagonistic relationship with Archie and Wolfe.
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Character cases:
Ch. 10 - leads three other men in serving search warrant for Clara Fox at Nero's townhouse. Archie hassles him throughout the search of the house. Rowcliff finds nothing.
Ch. 16 - is present outside the brownstone when Hombert, Cramer, and Skinner meet with Wolfe.
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Ch. 6 - is present at Boyden McNair Inc. and assists Cramer with the interviews.
Ch. 12 - Fred reports that Rowcliff (and lots of reinforcements) arrived at Glennanne, McNair's country estate, to look for the red box but had no search warrant (thus, Saul did not admit him).
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Attempted to invade the brownstone without the proper papers.
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Assisted Inspector Cramer with Orchard murder investigation.
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Rowcliff arrests Archie for impersonating a police officer in the Softdown boardroom.
He later forces his way past Fritz into the brownstone and up to the plant rooms, then arrests Wolfe as a material witness. Rowcliff actually touched Wolfe, infuriating him. Wolfe berates him in front of his superiors at Police Headquarters (Archie overhears and enjoys it.)
Reserved notes for this caseIf Archie is ever offered a choice between Heaven and Hell, he plans to settle it by asking, "Where's Rowcliff?"
"If there were 20 of us, including Rowcliff, starving on a desert island, and we were balloting to elect which one we would carve up for a barbecue, I wouldn't vote for Rowcliff because I know I couldn't keep him down. And compared to his opinion of me, mine of him is sympathetic."
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He was on duty at the site of Marko Vukcic's murder when Wolfe and Archie arrived.
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Mentioned.
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Assisted Inspector Cramer questioning Leo Heller's clients.
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Introduces himself as Lieutenant George Rowcliff" (Archie says that's typical, and asks what difference it makes whether he's George or Cuthbert.)
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Appears at the Jarrells with the first wave of cops.
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When Cramer asks how Archie would like a session with Rowcliff: "I'd love it. I once got him stuttering in eight minutes, the best I ever did..."
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Took Archie 8 minutes to get him stuttering.
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When Archie tries to call Cramer for the final handoff, some creep puts him through to Rowcliff instead.
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Mentioned, but not encountered. Archie regrets not getting a chance to break his record time of getting Rowcliff to stutter (2 minutes 20 seconds). (Archie has a bet with Saul that he can do it in 2 minutes with 3 more tries.)
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Mentioned; someone tries to fob Archie off on Rowcliff when he asks for Cramer.
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Archie has him stuttering in 14 minutes (not a record).
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His wife Diana is the twin sister of Denis Copes.
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Assisted investigation into the murder of Pierre Ducos.
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Too refined to use vulgarisms like "OK" when speaking. Archie considers his existence a reason why universal brotherhood won't be coming along anytime soon.
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At the murder scene, but Cramer is in charge. Archie says both he himself and Stebbins would love to see Rowcliff as a murder victim.
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Character quotations:
Look here, Goodwin. You've had your bluff called. Why not save time? Why don't you bring this Fox woman down here, or up here, and call it a trick? It'd save a lot of messing around."
Lt. Rowcliff asks Archie to make the execution of the search warrant for Clara Fox easier.