Character details
- First Name
- Leopold
- Last Name
- Elkus
- Notes
- Surgeon.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 4 - appears on Evelyn Hibbard's list of the League of Frightened Men.
Ch. 8 - Archie learns that Elkus drove Paul Chapin to Harvard 5 months earlier for the event at which Harrison is found dead. Elkus believes Chapin is guiltless despite the threatening poems, and he refuses to take any action against him.
Ch. 9 - receives Archie who is investigating Dreyer's death; tells Archie that Dreyer sold him fraudulent paintings years earlier, and that he had recently confronted him with Paul Chapin and Enrico Santini, an art expert; Dreyer was found dead of poisoning the next day.
Ch. 21 - attends the meeting in the office at which Wolfe corners the murderer. Archie overhears him telling Bowen "that it appeared like that Nero Wolfe was in an advanced stage of megalomania."
Reserved notes for this case
Character quotations:
I shall have apologies for you, sir, when this kindergarten is over.
Elkus reacts to Wolfe's explanation regarding Paul Chapin's innocence at the decisive gathering in the office.