Matthew Vaughan

In the short story Sing a Song of Sixpence, Matthew Vaughan is a young man in his late twenties and the twin brother of Magdalen Vaughan.

Like his sister, he lived in the house of his great aunt Lily Crabtree and was a suspect when the old lady was found bludgeoned to death. He also had a plausible motive in that he owed money and would have benefited from inheriting from her estate. However, the maid Martha said that she had heard Matthew, who did some journalism, typing on his typewriter the whole time without stopping. So he could not have had the opportunity to enter Miss Crabtree's room to kill her. Also, unlike the other occupants of the house, he did not have any argument or difference of opinion with Miss Crabtree on the day of her death.