Alice Cummings

In the short story The Affair of the Pink Pearl, Alice Cummings is the housemaid of the the Kingston Bruces at the Laurels in Wimbledon. A house guest has lost valuable pearl, but Alice has no reason to come into the drawing room where the jewel was lost during a game of bridge. Moreover, Alice had been working for the family for some years. Thus, like the unnamed cook in the household, she was not considered a plausible suspect.