Character details


First Name
Orrie
Last Name
Cather
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Second in line behind Saul Panzer when Nero and Archie need extra manpower.
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Ch. 16 - as part of Wolfe's plot to get information from Anna Fiore regarding Carlo Maffei, is bitten twice by Anna.
Reserved notes for this caseCh. 18 - along with Bill Gore, Fred Durkin, and Saul Panzer, surrounds the Kimball estate as Archie and Anderson confront Manuel Kimball.
Ch. 11 - reports that he has "got hold of something" he wanted to show to Wolfe; Archie invites him to bring it to the brownstone. Orrie arrives with a leather briefcase he acquired from a bookstore where Chapin left it with a friend who ran the bookstore.
Reserved notes for this caseCh. 11 - Archie opens the suitcase and discovers personal items belonging to Mrs. Burton -- Chapin's secret beloved. Hearing Wolfe speak of Chapin's reverence for the articles reminds Orrie of a guy he used to know in the army...
Ch. 10 - given instructions and money. Later, Orrie reports back that disguised as an electrician he did reconnaissance on the Seaboard Corp.'s boardroom.
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Ch. 11 - Orrie and Saul are the first operatives lined up to search McNair's country estate, Glennanne, for the red box. Both come to the office and receive their instructions. Ch. 12 - interrupted along with Fred and Saul while searching McNair's country estate for the red box; holds the fort with Saul while Fred calls Wolfe to report the arrival of authorities. Ch. 13 - Archie arrives at the cottage and tells Orrie to sing, to cover the sound of his conversation with Perron Gebert. "He cleared his throat and started it up. Orrie had a pretty good voice."
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Assigned to tail Naomi Karn by Nero Wolfe.
Reserved notes for this caseThat is how Archie knew that Naomi Karn was at the Hawthorne house when he saw Orrie lurking outside.
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Assisted in investigation of Orchard murder.
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Called in to help find Rony's murderer.
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Archie hires him to tail Barry Rackham.
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Hired by Wolfe to investigate Sigmund Keyes murder.
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In charge of one shift of operatives tailing Heath.
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Employed by Wolfe to find Carla Britten nee Carla Lovchen, Wolfe's adopted daughter.
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Wolfe assigned Orrie to investigate Molloy's business dealings.
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Substitutes for Archie at the brownstone during the Jarrell investigation, because Wolfe is escalating the running battle with Archie to a new and more frightening level :).
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Mentioned.
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Suggested by Wolfe as a possible candidate to swipe the orchid.
Reserved notes for this caseArchie said that Orrie wouldn't do it except possibly as a personal favour to Wolfe.
Wolfe instructs Archie to have Orrie on call.
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Wolfe hired him to aid in the stake-out of Alice Porter's cottage in Carmel, N.Y.
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Assisted in Jimmy Vail investigation.
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Helps out.
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Second in line behind Saul Panzer when Nero and Archie need extra manpower. Brown-eyed Rico Suave.
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Orrie Carther is arrested as a prime suspect for murder or Isabel Kerr.
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Checks out Cyrus M. Jarrett's "alibi" in regard to fatherhood.
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Mentioned by Archie when Wolfe ridicules the idea of basing a firm conclusion on a man's guilt or innocence solely on Archie's knowledge of his character.
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Assisted in the Odell murder investigation.
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Hired by Wolfe to investigate murder of Pierre Ducos.
Reserved notes for this caseMurdered all 3 victims (Harvey Bassett, Pierre Ducos, & Lucile Ducos).
 

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