Glad to hear you've read the books, Peace. Sometimes, when I'm in a quandary, I ask myself, "What would Archie Goodwin do?"

(Archie is Wolfe's assistant, the narrator and legman in all the books.)

Like when the Renfair folks told me that my nephew had had his foot stepped on by a horse, but I couldn't see him because he was in his camper and it was "against the rules" for me and his mother to go there. Yeah, right!

Archie wouldn't have tolerated that, and neither did I.
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Here's one of my favorite sentences by Archie. He is talking about a client who sells gasoline:

"Nothing convinced me to switch to Occidental Oil Company, of which he was it."

And then when he's in a room with a Treasury agent and a pile of counterfeit money:

"He knew that I knew that he knew that I knew."