Chief Inspector Duckham

Chief Inspector Duckham is a non-canonical character who was created for the 1987 BBC adaptation of 4.50 from Paddington. Duckham is a Scotland Yard detective sent to Rutherford Hall to assist Inspector Slack of the local police in the investigations after the body of an unknown woman is found there. Duckham knows Miss Marple (we are not told how) and insists that she be present and consulted at various stages of the investigation. In the original novel, the officer from Scotland Yard is Inspector Craddock and the local officer is Inspector Bacon. Like Craddock in the original novel, Duckham undertook the investigations that had to be done in London, including the interviews of the members of the Ballet Maritska troupe. In a scene not present in the novel, Duckham go the London address of Anna Stravinska from her friend Francoise. He proceeds to the address to find that the place has been broken into and ransacked, presumably by the killer who wanted to remove any incriminating background information about her.

The character of Duckham is played by David Waller.