Lon Cohen

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Lon Cohen is a character in the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout and Robert Goldsborough. Cohen is a newspaper editor and/or journalist near the top of the fictional New York Gazette, which in the Wolfe novels is a major New York daily newspaper. In the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe novels, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's assistant and de facto partner, merely states that Cohen's office is close to the publisher's, but that he doesn't know what Cohen's title is.

Archie, Lon, and some other Wolfe regulars play poker Thursday nights at the apartment of Saul Panzer, an independent operative that Wolfe frequently employs, often without Archie's foreknowledge.

Over the years, Wolfe and the Gazette develop a symbiotic relationship that gives the Gazette exclusive coverage of the dénouement of murders that Wolfe solves, and Wolfe gets a lot (sometimes too much) publicity.

Lon's role in the New York Gazette is not elaborated further in the Rex Stout novels, but becomes central to the story line in Robert Goldsborough's novel Death on Deadline.