Inspector Driver

In the short story Mr Eastwood's Adventure, Inspector Driver is the policeman who interviewed writer Anthony Eastwood towards the end of the story. Eastwood observed that the inspector was an unsympathetic man. He was "not nearly so like a real inspector" and was distinctly "stagey". He was, Eastwood concluded, "Another striking example of the superiority of Art over Nature."

After listening to Eastwood's account of the events which formed the main part of plot of the story, Driver concluded that Eastwood had been the victim of The Patterson gang. They had trapped Eastwood in an elaborate hoax and successfully made off with a large quantity of his valuables right under his nose.