Character details
- First Name
- Laura Atherton
- Last Name
- Fromm
- Notes
- Wealthy widow of philanthropist and chemical tycoon Damen Fromm.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
President of the Association for the Aid of Displaced Persons. Responds to Wolfe's ad about the woman in the spider earrings. Presents herself at Wolfe's office to hire him, wearing golden spider earrings.
Reserved notes for this caseLaura purchase the golden spider earrings, perhaps because she overheard her personal assistant, Jean Estey, using the secret password, "said the spider to the fly," and was suspiscious. She was murdered after the dinner party at Denis Horan's house.