Character details
- First Name
- Boyden
- Last Name
- McNair
- Notes
- Scottish, rags-to-riches story. Owner of Boyden McNair Agency.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 1 - mentioned by Lew Frost as he describes the cast of characters to Wolfe. Helen Frost calls him "Uncle Boyd."
Ch. 2 - meets Wolfe and Archie at his corporate office but is very impatient with the premise of the investigation. McNair seems to be on the verge of a breakdown from overwork.
Ch. 6 - stops by the interview room and discusses the situation briefly with Cramer.
Ch. 7 - calls the office while Lew Frost, Ben Leach, and Perren Gebert all are trying to get Helen away from Wolfe.
Ch. 8 - impatiently waits for Wolfe in the office, then asks Wolfe to be the executor of his estate and asks that Wolfe accept an unspecified "job." McNair begins to tell his life story to explain the extraordinary request and fate intervenes.
Ch. 11 - mentioned by Helen Frost; Boyden was adamantly against her marrying Gebert.
Reserved notes for this caseCh. 8 - dies from poisoned aspirin in Wolfe's office.