Lon Cohen

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Lon Cohen is a character in the Nero Wolfe stories 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 Nero Wolfe novels is a major New York daily newspaper. In the Stout stories, 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 newspaper 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 upon further in the Rex Stout stories, but becomes central to the story line in Robert Goldsborough's novel Death on Deadline.

In the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), the role of Lon Cohen is played by Saul Rubinek.