Character details
- First Name
- Paul
- Last Name
- Chapin
- Notes
- Author, Harvard graduate. Handicapped.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 5 - arrives unannounced at the brownstone as the League is hearing Wolfe's proposal to relieve them from fear of him.
Ch. 6 - says to Wolfe, "...I came to see you. I was thinking that possibly you are a reasonable and intelligent man ... my friends have wasted a lot of time and money pursuing a mirage which someone has cleverly projected for them ... You would not be so fatuous as to chase a mirage?" Chapin reveals that Elkus, Burton, and Drummond had informed him of the gathering with Wolfe in order to frighten him.
Ch. 7 - Cabot tells Wolfe the story of Chapin's hazing injury at the Yard on Harvard's campus (Chapin fell 3 stories); Burton reveals that Chapin married Dora Ritter (Burton's maid) in 1931.
Ch. 8 - Archie's investigation reveals Chapin was present at the Collard estate when Harrison was found dead, but no evidence pointed at him.
Ch. 9 - Durkin describes a diverse group of men watching Chapin at his apartment on 203 Perry Street but that the task is impossible; Archie learns at an interview with Elkus that Chapin was in France for 10 years trying to be a painter.
Ch. 14 - is waiting for Wolfe in the office when Archie arrives with the typewriter from the Harvard Club. Chapin has come to retrieve his box of personal belongings; he is quite upset to learn Wolfe opened it and wants it back. He leaves without it
Reserved notes for this caseActually somewhat of a dual personality: while his writing presents him as a cruel and guilty, it is just an exutory - he is fully uncapable of acting on these fantasies. Wolfe reads all his books and understands that from the start on the basis of his reading.
Ch. 12 - mentioned by Archie in Cramer's office.
Reserved notes for this case
Ch. 3 - mentioned by Wolfe as he articulates to Archie how he must observe phenomena to do his job.
Ch. 9 - mentioned by Archie as an example of how Wolfe uses psychology to discover facts (in this case, the whereabouts of the red box).
Reserved notes for this case