Character details
- First Name
- Manuel
- Last Name
- Kimball
- Notes
- 30ish. Hair black, eyes black. Neat and compact, with restless eyes, he made Archie nervous. Pilot.
- Reserved Notes
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Murdered Peter Oliver Barstow (see "Fer-de-Lance").
Character cases:
Ch. 3 - mentioned in the newspaper as a member of the golfing foursome when Peter Oliver Barstow dies.
Ch. 10 - interviewed by Archie on the Kimball family estate. Archie states he was "decent and polite."
Ch. 14-15 - arrives at the brownstone unannounced and demands that Wolfe retract his statements regarding the death of Peter Oliver Barstow.
Reserved notes for this caseManuel Kimball intended to kill his father, E.D. Kimball, because his father murdered his mother and her lover in South America 30 years before. Manuel was two years old at the time and present for the murder. His father abandoned Manuel and only went to South America recently to reestablish a relationship with him.
Manuel killed Carlo Maffei when Carlo contacted him after seeing the news report of Barstow’s death in newspaper—presumably to blackmail Kimball.
Ch. 15 - arranged to have a young man plant a poisonous snake (a fer-de-lance) in Wolfe's desk, causing quite a commotion.
Ch. 18 - commits murder-suicide, deliberately crashing his plan with his father, E. D. Kimball, onboard (as Archie and Anderson wait for him on the ground at the Kimball estate).