Character details
- First Name
- Althea Purcell
- Last Name
- Vail
- Notes
- Retired actress, wealthy widow of Harold F. Tedder; remarried to Jimmy Vail in 1957. Made a splash in her twenties as the milkmaid in _Meadowlark_.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Wolfe's client. A dozen years older than Jimmy Vail, so about 46.
Reserved notes for this caseShe and Jimmy faked the kidnapping and the secretary, Dinah Utley was in on it too. She killed Dinah when she panicked thinking that Wolfe was on to her. She killed he husband, Jimmy, when she realized that he had been involved with Dinah and that he would leave her because she murdered Dinah.