Sergeant Phillips

In the novel Evil Under the Sun, Sergeant Phillips is an officer of the Devon police and assisted Colonel Weston and Inspector Colgate in the investigations into the murder of Arlena Marshall on Smugglers' Island. Weston sent him to search the crime scene. He found a number of objects, notably a pair of nail scissors and a piece of broken pipe. After Weston and others found a lunch box in Pixy's Cave, he examined it and noted that the containers in it were all filled with a white powder which tasted like some narcotic drug.