Denis Dacre

In the short story The Blood-Stained Pavement, Captain Denis Dacre and his wife stayed at an inn in the Cornish fishing village of Rathole. When they arrived in the hotel they met Carol, an old friend of Captain Dacre.

After the death of Margery, he married a woman named Joan.

Sir Henry Clithering knows about the man, and remembers that his real name is Davis and that Carol actually was his wife. Davis had “married” several times, always with quiet inconspicuous girls without many relatives. They would travel to the coast, meet Carol, and some time later the wife would die.