Character details
- First Name
- Marko
- Last Name
- Vukcic
- Notes
- "He was one of only two men whom Wolfe will call by their first names, apart from employees," Archie relates as he introduces Marko in "Too Many Cooks." A boyhood friend from Montenegro, Marko is welcome to address Wolfe by his first name, and he dines monthly at Wolfe's house. One of the Fifteen Masters, Marko is the great chef of Rusterman's restaurant in New York -- one of the few places Wolfe will dine away from home.
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Murdered in "The Black Mountain."
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Archie describes him as "not fat, but huge, like a lion upright on its hind legs with no hat covering his dense tangle of hair."
Introduces Wolfe to the great chef Jerome Berin. To Wolfe's disgust, Marko is again enthralled by his former wife, Dina, who had left him after five years of marriage for Phillip Laszio. "Archie. I have affection for Marko Vukcic," Wolfe says. "I hunted dragonflies with him in the mountains. Do you realize that fool is going to let that fool make a fool of him again?"
Reserved notes for this caseA suspect in the murder of Phillip Laszio -- just as Dina intended.
Mentioned as possible lever to get Wolfe back to work.
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Dropped in at the brownstone for a Sunday evening snack on five kinds of cheese, quava jelly, freshly roasted chestnuts and almond tarts.
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Wolfe visits Marko at 2am the day of his disappearance, and gives his old friend five instructions.
1. The plants are to be given to Mr. Hewitt.
2. Fritz will work for Vukcic's restaurant.
3. Vukcic will have power of attorney.
4. The house and its contents will be put up for sale.
5. Archie is to "act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence".
Marko calls Archie to meet with him and gives him this information.
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Calls on his friendship with Nero -- asking him to prove a friend, Virgil Pompa, innocent of murder. Once worked under Pompa at Mondor's in Paris.
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Wolfe leaves the brownstone to eat with Marko rather than attend Archie's dinner party.
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Shot to death in the street outside his home on the south side of East 54th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues. His restaurant 'Rusterman's' was located on the north side of 58th Street off Lexington Ave.
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Wolfe feels an obligation to Marko and Rustermans and the people who work there and decides to attend the picnic.
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Deceased. Former owner of Rusterman's Restaurant and Wolfe's good friend.
Reserved notes for this caseMentioned when Wolfe gets so angry he starts swearing in Serbo-Croatian. However, Archie's memory of Wolfe cursing like that upon Marko's death appears to conflict with the record of that investigation.
Mentioned.
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Mentioned (Wolfe's trusteeship over Rusterman's will end in the next year).
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Mentioned. Goodwin reminisces about when he was alive.
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Deceased. Former owner and operator of Rustermans Restaurant.
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