Character details
- First Name
- Jerome
- Last Name
- Berin
- Notes
- One of the Fifteen Masters; chef of the Corridona at San Remo.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Many years before Marko Vukcic introduces Wolfe to Berin on the train, Wolfe had happened upon Berin's great creation, a sausage called Saucisse Minuit, at a little Spanish inn -- while Wolfe was a young man on a confidential mission for the Austrian government, and Berin was unknown in the world of haute cuisine. Learning the secret of Saucisse Minuit became a lifelong quest for Wolfe; but Berin will share his secret with no one, not at any price. Others have tried to replicate the delicacy; an outraged Berin tells Wolfe of Phillip Laszio's audacity in offering something he calls Saucisse Minuit on the Hotel Churchill menu.
Reserved notes for this caseWrongly jailed for the murder of Phillip Laszio, he owes his release to Nero Wolfe. At least Berin doesn't take the recipe for Saucisse Minuit to the grave with him three years later, when he is killed by a Fascist bomb in Barcelona, while fighting for the Loyalists in Spain.