Too Many Cooks

A self-described "special kind of woman." Archie notes, "I have always had a belief that the swamp-woman -- the kind who could move her eyelids slowly three times and you're stuck in a marsh and might as well give up -- is never any better than a come-on for suckers, but I could see that if Dina Laszio once got you alone and she had her mind on her work and it was raining outdoors, it would take more than a sense of humor to laugh it off." Tells Wolfe privately that she fears her husband, Phillip Laszio, will be poisoned. "I am seizing an opportunity to articulate a grudge," Wolfe tells Dina when he has the opportunity to dress her down for her effect on Marko Vukcic's life; "I have admitted an animus against you... You enveloped him with your miasma -- you made that the only air he wanted to breathe -- and then by caprice, without warning, you deprived him of it and left him gasping." RN