Character details
- First Name
- Saul
- Last Name
- Panzer
- Notes
- Top hired hand Nero and Archie look to for manpower. Hosts regular Thursday night poker game at eight pm at his apartment in Brooklyn. Rust-colored hair, 5'7, 145 lbs, big nose and flat ears. In the "Rubber Band" (ch. 6) Archie tells us that Panzer has a photographic memory when it comes to faces.
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Character cases:
Ch. 5 - Wolfe mentions that he sent Panzer to talk to Anna Fiore and that he was unable to pry more than her name out of her.
Ch. 9 - mentioned by Archie.
Ch. 16 - drives the car with Maria Maffei and Anna Fiore in Wolfe's plot to convince Anna to reveal information about Carlo.
Reserved notes for this caseCh. 18 - flies a plane over the Kimball estate monitoring any attempt by Kimball to escape by air as Archie and Anderson move in.
Ch. 8 - Wolfe instructs Archie to get Saul to discover Andrew Hibbard's "last discoverable footstep" (and to have him phone Wolfe); informs Wolfe that a news vendor had seen Hibbard just prior to his death.
Ch. 11 - we learn Saul's search for Hibbard continues, as he checks the morgue every day and does what else Archie doesn't know...
Ch. 13 - Archie meets Saul at the McAlpin hotel lobby and goes over Saul's activities tracking down people and places in Hibbard's past.
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Ch. 6 - comes to the brownstone for instructions. Later, he returns after searching Clara Fox's apartment (see entry re: Bill Purvil).
Ch. 7 - accepts Wolfe's commission to arrange for Hilda Lindquist "to be in seclusion for a while" (in order to avoid the police in the aftermath of Scovil's murder).
Ch. 8 - returns to the brownstone and reports to Wolfe and Archie; stays in the north room that night.
Ch. 10 - reports back to Wolfe regarding Lindquist's father in Nebraska.
Ch. 15 - Wolfe sends Saul to retrieve Hilda Lindquist after Mike Walsh is found murdered.
Ch. 17 - assists Wolfe in an experiment regarding the mysterious gunshot he and Archie heard over the phone.
Ch. 18 - repeats the fake gunshot experiment for the benefit of Skinner and Cramer to convince them of Perry's guilt.
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Ch. 11 - summoned by Wolfe to search the house and grounds at Glennanne, McNair's country estate in Brewster, NY; comes to the office to receive instructions, and Wolfe sends him to Glennanne with a document providing legal authority to "take complete charge of the house and ground of Glennanne."
Ch. 12 - Durkin reports from a phonebooth in town that he, Orrie, and Saul successfully held off Lt. Rowcliff, cops, state troopers and the assistant DA of Putnam County from entering McNair's country estate -- they had no search warrant.
Ch. 14 - Saul is present in the office when Archie returns from NYPD headquarters and is giving Wolfe a lesson on the Irish sweepstakes; he departs with $20 for upcoming expenses.
Ch. 17 - calls the office and talks with Wolfe (who shooed Archie off the line). Later, Saul arrives at the office with a wrapped package which Archie puts in the safe (nearly causing Cramer to explode, assuming it is the red box).
Reserved notes for this caseAs for the object of the search -- "No sign of it. All cubic inches accounted for," Saul tells Archie; "Since it was Saul, that settled it." Later, Saul arrives at the office with a parcel, about the size of cigar box, wrapped in brown paper; Wolfe asks Archie to put it in the safe. Archie describes Saul as "a little crestfallen, but not exactly downhearted." It had appeared more than likely to Wolfe that the confounded box would never be found, so he had sent Saul on a different errand.
Takes Archie and Wolfe to the railway station for the exotic excursion to West Virginia. (...Tough little Saul Panzer [was] choking off a tremelo as he told Wolfe good-by. You might have thought we were bound for the stratosphere to shine up the moon and pick wild stars.") Called long-distance into the case by Wolfe, Saul documents the movements of the killer and arrives at Kanawha Spa during Wolfe's dinner speech. "Have you got anything?" Archie asks before they enter the dining room. "I've got everything," Saul replies.
Reserved notes for this caseVerifies Wolfe's belief that no newspaper had reported the name of the sauce being tested -- and that Dina Laszio must have provided the information to the killer, who then had made a slip by naming it in his conversation with Wolfe. "How do you do, Mr. Liggett," Saul says as he quietly faces the killer at dinner and lays out every detail of his movements before and after the murder. "You say you drove here this evening in the same car that Liggett hired Tuesday?" Wolfe asks Saul. "Well, that's rubbing it in."
Ch. 10 - mentioned by Wolfe as an example of the forces he might bring to bear on the investigation if people (such as Nancy Osgood) aren't cooperative in answering his questions.
Ch. 15 - mentioned by Wolfe who should have already summoned him to help.
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Investigated Dunwoodie, Prescott, and Davis' office procedures and found about the death of Lucille Adams, Prescott's confidential secretary.
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Hired by Wolfe to assist in the Gould murder investigation
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Reserved notes for this caseWas tailing Kerr Nayor the night he was murdered. He saw him meet with Hester Livsey and talk with her for almost an hour. Saul lost Naylor when he unexpectedly hopped in a cab.
Travels to Atlantic City to fetch Nancylee Shepherd for a meeting with Wolfe.
Reserved notes for this caseOffers to waive his fee after failing to bring back the Shepherds.
Works with Ruth Brady to ambush Archie and Louis Rony as they drive away from the Sperlings' Stony Acres estate; replies that the wife and children are "wonderful" when Archie asks about them.
Reserved notes for this caseHelps Archie search Rony's apartment for Rony's Communist Party membership card, then bumps into Jimmy Sperling and Mrs. Sperling also searching Rony's apartment.
Archie tells Pete Roeder, "Saul Panzer is the best man alive," and hires him to tail Barry Rackham.
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Helps with Wolfe's midnight plan to interrogate the Pitcairn family. Archie mentions leaving a message with Saul's wife when contacting him for this case.
Reserved notes for this casePretends to find a provocative note from Dini Lauer addressed to Joseph G. Pitcairn. Wolfe mentions that Saul's talents are exceptional. Archie mentions that Saul leaps "like a college athlete" over a stream.
Hired by Wolfe to investigate Sigmund Keyes murder.
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Takes names at the door as members of the Manhattan Flower Club come to view the orchids. "I was at the door to do a job and I did it," Saul said in response to Cramer's badgering that he memorized each face to each name.
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Called in to help check all the typing bureaus, looking for records of Baird Archer and "Put Not Your Trust." Investigates the killer's alibi for the murder of Rachel Abrams.
Chapter 22, Nero Wolfe speaking: "That is Mr. Panzer, there at the end of Mr. Goodwin's desk. If he ever wants to know anything about you, tell him; you might as well."
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Saul helps Wolfe and Fritz arrange the office for the re-enactment of the meeting during which the keys were stolen.
Reserved notes for this caseWolfe sends Saul to Venezuela to check out Eric Hagh's bona fides.
In charge of one shift of operatives tailing Heath. Spends a good bit of time under a bush in Central Park, watching and listening while Heath meets with a woman.
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Employed by Wolfe to find Carla Britten nee Carla Lovchen, Wolfe's adopted daughter.
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Mentioned.
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Wolfe calls him in for breakfast and a few errands.
Reserved notes for this caseSaul arranges for the answers to be mailed to the contestants, so that the ad agency can void them and come up with a new set of questions.
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Wolfe assigned Saul to check into the safety deposit box rented to Richard Randall. Later, Saul tried to contact Ella Reyes.
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Traces Mr. Jarrell's movements on the day of the murder.
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Attends the final confrontation.
Reserved notes for this caseFound Mrs. Dobbs and runs into Victor Tuttle leaving her house as he arrives.
On Wolfe's orders, sent notes (purportedly from Santa Claus) to most of the suspects to test their reactions.
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Mentioned. Wolfe says that he wouldn't ask Saul to snatch the orchid.
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Wolfe instructs Archie to have Saul on call, and actually goes with Archie to Saul's apartment to stage the final confrontation there rather than in the office. Note that Saul is single and lives alone in this story, although in previous volumes he was occasionally described as married. His apartment is described in some detail.
Reserved notes for this caseWolfe identifies the murderer within 15 minutes during the meeting at Saul's.
Assigned to tail Mrs. Usher.
Reserved notes for this caseMeets up with Archie when their two tailing assignments go to the same cheap restaurant and sit down together. Archie remarks that the question of who has the better eyesight is settled when they greet each other at the same time in a dark ally. When asked who's in charge, he replies "Mr. Wolfe."
Employed by Wolfe to search for Porter manuscript and to
'stake out' Porter's cottage in Carmel N.Y.
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Hired by Wolfe to assist in the investigation of the Eisler murder.
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Initially unavailable due to another job.
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Living on 38th Street between Lexington and Third Ave.
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Helps out.
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Helps keep the players penned up in the front room, listening to Wolfe's talk with Mrs. Sorrell.
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Helps watch trap set out by Wolfe. Is sent to France and various other places looking for people who might have been the baby's mother. Escorts the temp in during the final confrontation.
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Engaged to search for something.
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Archie attended a baseball game with him before the story opens.
Reserved notes for this caseSent by Wolfe to McLeod's place with an accusation. Tries to only take half his usual fee.
Doesn't believe Orrie would have involved Archie if he were guilty, due to Orrie's respect for Archie's abilities.
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Mentioned by Archie when Wolfe ridicules the idea of basing a firm conclusion on a man's guilt or innocence solely on Archie's knowledge of his character, in reference to the events of _Death of a Doxy_, when Saul's opinion cast the deciding vote on whether Wolfe would take up Orrie's cause.
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Lives eleven blocks from Rustermans.
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Hired by Wolfe to investigate murder of Pierre Ducos.
Reserved notes for this caseThe final confrontation is staged in his apartment.
Taken on for an assignment kept quiet from Archie. Saul and Wolfe carry the conversation at lunch, before the principals gather in the office.
Reserved notes for this caseArchie notes Saul's change of attitude from the congenial conversationalist he had been at lunch: he never takes his eyes from Morton Schane once they enter the office. Wolfe claimed Saul was tailing Schane, but Archie thinks that was fabricated to touch off what, in fact, actually happened in the office during the final confrontation. Archie didn't see Saul shoot at all, but it was his bullet that went through Schane's heart.
Initially unavailable, assigned by Wolfe (without Archie's knowledge) to make inquiries at the Beck Products Corporation.
Reserved notes for this caseAfter obtaining a photo of Arthur Howell, takes a nap in Wolfe's room and accompanies Archie to confront the killer.