Thomas Askew

In the novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Thomas Askew is the landlord of Anglers' Arms at Staverley in Hampshire. Bobby Jones stayed at the inn while he was there under cover as "Edward Hawkins" the chaffeur of Lady "Frankie" Derwent. Askew and his barmaid told Bobby about strange "goings on" at The Grange, the only other large building near Staverley besides Merroway Court. "The Grange" was a sanatorium run by Dr Nicholson. There were groanings and shrieks from the patients. They were mental and nerve cases and people who had been put away by their relatives.