Character details
- First Name
- Charles E.
- Last Name
- Shanks
- Notes
- Orchid rival. In "Some Buried Caesar," Archie describes him as "a short fat person in a dirty unpressed mohair suit with little keen black eyes and two chins."
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 1 - signed a letter presented by Lew Frost to encourage Wolfe to investigate the murder of Molly Lauck.
Reserved notes for this case
Ch. 6 - Shanks (Wolfe's orchid-growing rival) is present at the exposition in Crowfield, and Archie mentions that Wolfe was being gracious to him (discussing topics such as stored pollen, nutritive solutions, and fungus inoculation). Archie actually refers to Shanks as an "enemy" because of his recent refusal to trade orchids with Wolfe (see related Orchid annotation in this case).
Ch. 14 - "chews the rag" with Wolfe at the Exposition.
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