Character details
- First Name
- Frederick
- Last Name
- Osgood
- Notes
- Rancher.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 5 - arrives at the Pratt ranch after Clyde's murder and questions Archie. He is suspicious of and resents Lily Rowan's presence near the scene of Clyde's death. Calls the sheriff and the police.
Ch. 6 - requests that Wolfe come to meet with him at the exposition offices.
Ch. 7 - starts out badly trying to hire Wolfe to investigate the death of his son (Wolfe got up to leave twice early in the meeting), then apologizes and finally agrees to pay Wolfe $1000 for his opinion on the matter; then after hearing Wolfe believes it was murder, he agrees to pay him to compel the authorities to officially investigate.
Ch. 8 - goes with Wolfe to see District Attorney Waddell and becomes furious with him when he remains reluctant to investigate his son's death as a murder (after hearing Wolfe's reasoning on the matter).
Ch. 9 - with Wolfe and Archie, returns to his ranch as it becomes the base of operations to investigate Clyde Osgood's murder.
Ch. 11 - orders Tom Pratt out of his house but relents at Wolfe's request so Pratt and McMillan can be questioned. Osgood becomes indignant when McMillan brings news that the police suspect Clyde of poisoning the bull; Wolfe calms him down.
Reserved notes for this case
Character quotations:
I'm going on with it.
Osgood becomes resolute in his desire to suffer the consequences of allowing Wolfe to investigate the murder of his son, Clyde. Wolfe responds, "Then prepare yourself for annoyance, intrusion, plague, the insolence of publicity."