Character details
- First Name
- E. D.
- Last Name
- Kimball
- Notes
- 50's; hair graying. Large but not fat. Commodities trader (grain). Father of Manuel. Quit school at age 12 and ran away from home. Lived in South America, primarily Argentina.
- Reserved Notes
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As a young man, murdered his wife and her lover after discovering them together in his bed. Abandoned his then 2-year old son, Manuel, whom he assumed was illegitimate.
Character cases:
Ch. 3 - mentioned in the newspaper as a member of the golfing foursome when Peter Oliver Barstow dies.
Ch. 10 - mentioned by son, Manuel, who tells Archie he left for Chicago on business shortly after Barstow's death on the golf course.
Ch. 13 - returns to NYC to discover Archie in his office; he finds the story about a poison dart killing Barstow hard to believe, but is convinced to return to the brownstone to talk to Wolfe. Reveals his troubled / dramatic past to Wolfe (who tricks him into doing so).
Reserved notes for this caseThe intended murder victim, not Peter Barstow. In South America 30 years before, killed his beautiful Argentine wife and her lover, his best friend. Two-year-old Manuel was present; Kimball isn't sure why he didn't shoot him too, since he was sure Manuel was not his son.