Daily Wire

In the novel The Sittaford Mystery, the Daily Wire is an English newspaper. The paper ran competitions regualrly. In early part of the story, Charles Enderby, a journalist at the paper is sent to Sittaford to present Major Burnaby with a cheque for £5000 for submitting the only correct answer for the paper's free football competition. The ambitious journalist took the opportunity to ask Major Burnaby about the recent murder of Captain Trevelyan. Burnaby disliked journalists, but obviously he could not be unwelcome to someone who had just given him a £5000 cheque.