Gideon 'Sandy' Fitzpatrick

Born in 1893 in a small wooden coracle off the north coast of Scotland, Gideon 'Sandy' Fitzpatrick was the first and only son of Carstair 'Fitzilliam' Fitzpatrick, an upholsterer of some renown and inventor of the 'Arbuthnot-slide-trombone' method of animal husbandry. Carstair, a keen amateur scientist, had insisted that his son be born at sea in an attempt to investigate the influence of tidal patterns on infant gender assignment. Sadly, due to a freak accident involving a caulking bucket and a rowing oar, the experiment was a complete failure, and left Carstair with a lifelong inability to discern the taste of onion. Gideon, however, was born a healthy and happy baby of 10lb 2oz, much to the delight of his mother - Margaret - a somewhat insouciant and capricious lady, an untameable Succubus, and the finest woman that Gideon would ever meet...

After a somewhat undistinguished school career (in which his one notable achievement was a redesign for the cricket bat; a 4lb monstrosity of steel and burning asphalt which never really took off) Gideon found himself enrolled at King's College, Cambridge, where he would go on to become a bachelor of the sciences and the world's leading expert on the effects of monkey sputum on the human nervous system. This led, naturally, to a career at Scotland Yard, where he now works as a consulting detective. Oftentimes deploying his impressive knowledge base in the fields of forensics, parapsychology, toxicology, and 'wood-based inductive reasoning', Gideon's ultra-modern approach to the methods of detection have been considered far too radical by some. As a result, he spends much of his time operating 'off-grid', working deep undercover within the criminal underground.

With Gideon involved in his own, off-the-book investigation of the LSD-racket (an investigation which the mayor had become aware of and had been trying to shut down), it becomes clear that Gideon may (or indeed may not) have been present at all times (or none) during the course of the events which make up our story. On the night of the murder Gideon had been following the mayor - he claims for the mayor's own protection - and given Gideon's abilities as a 'master-of-disguise' none of the other characters may have been any the wiser. But can we trust a man with such unorthodox views...