Character details
- First Name
- Theodore
- Last Name
- Horstmann
- Notes
- Older man. Wolfe's orchid nurse. Lives in small cubbyhole on the roof with the plants. First mentioned in ch. 3 of "Fer-de-lance" - Archie sometimes hears him shouting at Wolfe in the mornings.
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Character cases:
Ch. 3 - mentioned for the first time, "... Wolfe seemed to have the same effect on Horstmann that an umpire had on John J. McGraw."
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Ch. 2 - mentioned by Archie, describing Wolfe's routine; Horstman maintains the conditions in the partitioned rooms in the greenhouse for the 10,000 orchids he and Wolfe nurse daily from 9-11am and 4-6pm.
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Ch. 2 - mentioned by Archie who goes to the plant rooms to get instructions from Wolfe; Horstmann is fussing with a pot of charcoal and osmundine.
Ch. 11 - helps extract Clara Fox from her hiding spot in a box of osmundine where she eluded arrest during Lt. Rowcliff's search for her in the plant rooms.
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Ch. 5 - mentioned (Wolfe tells Archie to remind him to wire Theodore. He found a mealy bug on one of the plants.)
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Helped Wolfe's trap the killer.
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Mentioned.
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Mentioned at the end
Reserved notes for this caseTheodore helps to search for the missing cylinder in the office.
He is still nursing orchids while Archie is in the army and Wolfe and Fritz are in training.
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Mentioned.
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Has a lot of work to do during this case.
Reserved notes for this caseTo Wolfe's credit, his first reaction when the plant rooms were shot up was to check that Theodore was OK.
Doesn't like Long Island.
Reserved notes for this caseSent, with the orchids, to Lewis Hewitt's for the duration. Spilled the beans to Cramer.
Summoned via telegram to tend his critically ill mother in Illinois, so that Wolfe really had to *work* with the orchids instead of dally.
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Mentioned.
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Acted as 'mingler' at the orchid show at the brownstone.
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Packs the orchids for Archie while Archie makes out & attaches the labels; nearly has a nervous breakdown with so many people and so much alcohol sloshing around the plant rooms during the dinner party.
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In bloom: warm room, Miltonia resley, Phalenopsis aphrodite. In the medium room, only a few of the Cattleyas and Laelias had flowers. (transcribed from audio recording)
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Helped Fritz Brenner get Wolfe and Archie's luggage out to the curb in front of the brownstone when they left for Montenegro.
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Talks with Wolfe, but not with Archie. In bloom: in the cool room, the Odontoglossums; in the tropical room, 2 benches of Phalenopsis. But the big show is in the 3rd room, since it's Cattleya mossiae time (Wolfe has 14 varieties, of which Archie's favorite is Rhinichaeana).
An Oncideum varicosum has dry rot, which has never happened before in April.
(transcribed from audio recording, spelling somewhat uncertain)
The clients in this case are so panicky that Archie interrupts Wolfe in the plant rooms several times.
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Mentioned by Archie while describing to the reader why Wolfe needs a large, steady flow of money to keep up the brownstone.
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Archie says that Theodore eats in the kitchen with Fritz (and with Archie, when Archie's in the doghouse), although Theodore's never been shown doing so.
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Mentioned.
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Mentioned. He has Sundays off, and uses them to visit his sister in New Jersey.
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Mentioned.
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Helps convey some new Laelia crosses (acquired from Hewitt) up to the plant rooms.
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Mentioned (Archie sends his regards in his letter to Wolfe).
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Theodore babies Wolfe, which is one reason why Theodore isn't Archie's favorite human being. Nevertheless, he calls "Theodore and Fritz and I.. as manly as they come".
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Came to work, learned of the murder, went back home.
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'little guy with a pug nose.'
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Mentioned
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Briefly encountered when one of the ladies in the case is brought up to see the orchids.
Reserved notes for this caseArchie warns him that the lady in question is crying in the potting room, and recommends that he find chores elsewhere for awhile.