Character details
- First Name
- Clara
- Last Name
- Fox
- Notes
- Age 26, decodes cables and telegrams at the Seaboard Products Corporation. Had considered a career as an adventuress.
- Reserved Notes
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Wolfe likes her.
Character cases:
Ch. 2 - mentioned by Anthony Perry, indicating she had opportunity to take the $30,000 missing from Mr. Muir's office. Perry indicates, however, that he doesn't think she took it.
Ch. 3 - confronted by Mr. Muir regarding the stolen money, she handles herself well.
Ch. 4 - attends the initial meeting in Wolfe's office with Mike Walsh and Hilda Lindquist.
Ch. 5 - responds to Wolfe's questioning regarding the stolen money and Scovil's murder; she pays him a $1 retainer and becomes the client. Along with Mike Walsh and Hilda Lindquist, dines with Wolfe and Archie.
Ch. 7 - NYC detectives arrive at the brownstone with a warrant (filed by Ramsey Muir) for Clara's arrest; Archie refuses to admit them.
Ch. 11 - hides in a box of osmundine under boards supporting orchids being sprayed by Wolfe as Lt. Rowcliff searches for her in the plant rooms, evading arrest for larceny.
Ch. 16 - at Wolfe's direction and in the office, Fox tells Hombert, Cramer, and Skinner the story of the Rubber Band.
Reserved notes for this caseStolen money is planted in her car.
Clara hides underneath orchids which Wolfe waters while Rowcliff searches the house for her.
Ch. 9 - mentioned by Insp. Cramer as an example of Wolfe concealing essential aspects of a case.
Ch. 17 - mentioned by Archie, that Asst. DA Frisbie handled the Clara Fox larceny case.
Reserved notes for this case
Mentioned. She was once hidden beneath a pile of osmundine and hosed down with water in the plantrooms by Wolfe.
Reserved notes for this case