Character details
- First Name
- Marquis of
- Last Name
- Clivers
- Notes
- Nobleman from England travelling in the U.S. on diplomatic mission.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 1 - Archie reads about the Marquis of Clivers (who is currently in the U.S. on official government business) in the New York Times.
Ch. 12 - arrives at the brownstone, unannounced.
Ch. 13 - informs Wolfe that he paid Rubber Coleman approximately $1,000,000 in 1906. Clivers is under the assumption that Wolfe was a blackmailer.
Ch. 15 - arrested at the scene of Mike Walsh's murder.
Ch. 17 - agrees to come to the office at Wolfe's request.
Ch. 18 - arrives at the brownstone and is sent upstairs to confer with Wolfe; asserts that Anthony Perry is Rubber Coleman; shoots Perry through the heart when he pulls a gun and points it at Wolfe.
Reserved notes for this caseComes upon the corpse of Mike Walsh moments after his murder and is the prime suspect.
Fatally shoots Perry through the heart after Perry shoots Wolfe at the finale of the book. Archie got Perry in the shoulder.
Character quotations:
Eh? What kind of talk is that? Rot.
Lord Clivers responding to Wolfe's philosophizing about debts, "All debts are preposterous. They are the envious past clutching with its cold dead fingers the throat of the living present."