Character details
- First Name
- Simon
- Last Name
- Jacobs
- Notes
- Writer, born 1897. Wrote hundreds of stories between 1922 and 1940, using 4 pen names; production dropped drastically after WWII. Member of NAAD since 1931, prompt dues-payer. Married in 1948, had 3 children by 1959. Archie describes him as sixty-two years old, thin and scrawny, hair like Mark Twain's, has a stutter.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Sued Richard Echols for plagiarism, collected $90,000. Living since 1954 with his wife and three
children in a tenement at 632 West 21st Street.
Reserved notes for this case
Mentioned.
Reserved notes for this case"Back in 1958...a man named Simon Jacobs should not have been stabbed to death and his body dragged behind a bush in Van Cortlandt Park, but he was, and Nero Wolfe and I would never forget it." (Actually 1959.) One reason for the precautions taken in guarding Julie Jaquette.