Gustave Rod

Gustave Rod is one of the characters in PetersCorporal's first city, Townville.

Profile
Gustave is a wealthy man who lives in Townville. He studied oenology at Townville's Major Culinary Academy and got out with his sommelier and oenologist degrees. When he was just 26 years old, he started his own company to sell wine, Grand Vine, and it's still one of the biggest companies in Townville, being only surpassed by Jade River Holdings and Jamin Family Company. He is very proud of his carreer and considers his company's honor one of the most important things he has in his life.

Profiles known from cases:

 * He is well-off, drinks wine, drinks lemonade and uses alcohol.
 * He isn't left-handed, doesn't use coal, doesn't practise shooting and doesn't have gardening skills.
 * During the events of Purchase A Murder, he had a stubble.

Role in cases
The police found the dead body of Jared Mangrim on board of a luxury train and, after investigating his life, found out that he worked for Grand Vine (and was one of the best employees). He said that Jared was an expert in sales but didn't know much about wine itself. Later, he also explained that Jared helped him sell cheap wine at humble places where he couldn't go because of his company's reputation. He was not one of the case's major suspects and unsurprisingly turned out to be innocent when all of the evidence pointed at the train's driver, Albert Korfberg. Evan Day said that he was very happy to have had the chance to talk to Gustave since he was one of Townville's most important business people.
 * Dead End, Case #17 in Townville:

The next day, Gustave turned up at the police station and told the player he needed something. Jared had sold a wine bottle to Albert the morning before, when he was about to get killed. Gustave really needed that wine because it was the last bottle he had so he told the team to contact Albert and ask him for the bottle. Since Albert was in jail now, the team had to find the bottle in his driving station which was still a crime scene and once this was done, they returned it to Gustave. He was not angry because of the deplorable state in which the wine was since people would praise it just because of the price.