Miles (The Love Detectives)

In the short story The Love Detectives, Miles is the elderly butler of Sir James Dwighton at Alderway. On the day of Sir James's death, Sir James had come back from a game of golf just after 5 p.m.. Miles brought him tea in the library and then returned to clear it at about 6.10 p.m. Sir James asked Miles to call his valet Jennings. Subsequently Miles came back to the room to close the curtains and discovered that Sir James had been murdered and called the police. Questioned in detail and pressed by Colonel Melrose, Miles admitted that he had caught a glimpse of Lady Laura Dwighton descending the staircase and he thought she might have gone into the library around 6.30 pm.