Fred Jackson

In the novel The Murder at the Vicarage, Fred Jackson is a seventeen year old boy who makes deliveries for the fishmonger in St. Mary Mead. At about the time of the murder of Colonel Protheroe he was making deliveries along Vicarage Road. He called at the of Dr Haydock, the Vicarage and at the house of Mrs Price-Ridley. At the vicarage he was reprimanded by Mary Hill for being late. Questioned by Inspector Slack, he said that he did not see anybody. However Colonel Melchett thought that if he did see, for example, Archer, who was one of the suspects, he would be unlikely to say so as Fred is Archer's cousin.