Character details
- First Name
- Mr.
- Last Name
- Jones
- Notes
- Agent used by Wolfe in extreme cases. Used by Wolfe to get information on two Communists who had set him up (as described by Archie in "the Second Confession").
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Mentioned by Wolfe after Zeck sends $50,000 cash. Wolfe tells Archie that $10,000 is to be put in the safe "for something that can't appear in our records . . . It will be for Mr. Jones."
Reserved notes for this caseJones visits Wolfe (after Archie was told to go to bed) for three hours and provides inside information of the American Communist Party of which Rony was a member. The information involved a U.S. presidential election and the Party's manipulation of Wallace, a candidate.
After Wolfe sends an anonymous letter on Gazette letterhead to the American Communist Party, Jones calls in with the codeword "rectangle," indicating that the letter had been received. Wolfe calls the ACP to invite Mr. Harvey and Mr. Stevens (ACP leaders) to a discussion at his office.