Character details
- First Name
- Anna
- Last Name
- Fiore
- Notes
- According to Archie, "Homely kid about twenty with skin like stale dough, and she looked like she'd been scared in the cradle and never got over it."
- Reserved Notes
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Anna was a key witness in "Fer-de-Lance."
Character cases:
Ch. 2 - interviewed by Archie at Carlo Maffei's rooming house on Sullivan street. Anna reveals that she overhead Carlo on the phone with the person who presumably killed him. Archie takes her to the brownstone where Wolfe questions her for 5 hours (she shuts up mysteriously when Wolfe asks her if she had ever seen a golf club in Maffei's room).
Ch. 5 - Archie brings her to the office for a second interview during which she reveals she'd received a letter and $100 payment for her silence regarding Carlo Maffei.
Ch. 14 - Archie takes Anna to the brownstone for more questioning; Archie allows her to see Manuel Kimball who had just arrived and was in the front room; she does not recognize him.
Reserved notes for this caseCh. 16 - Wolfe arranges for bandits (Orrie Cather, Fred Durkin, Bill Gore and Archie) to waylay Anna and take the $100 payment for silence from her. Believing herself betrayed and promised money when the killer is apprehended, Anna gives Wolfe the evidence linking Carlo Maffei and Manuel Kimball. She bites Orrie Cather twice during the scene. After having her $100 taken, Anna hands over to Wolfe an envelope of evidence compiled by Carlo Maffei (she had it on her person).
Ch. 7 - mentioned by Wolfe, speaking with Helen Frost.
Ch. 11 - Wolfe alludes to Fiore (who had observed a newspaper with an article cut out) as he explains the types of questions that he will be asking Helen Frost.
Reserved notes for this case