Carruthers

In the novel The Sittaford Mystery, Carruthers is a journalist colleague of Charles Enderby, probably also working at "The Daily Wire".

Carruthers indirectly helped with the investigation of the murder of Captain Trevelyan by breaking part of the alibi of the novelist Martin Dering. According to Enderby, Carruthers had told him that he had been sent by the paper to attend a literary dinner on the night that the murder took place. Martin Dering had claimed that he had attended that literary dinner that night. According to the seating plan, Carruthers was supposed to sit next to Martin Dering but that seat was empty. Dering did not come for the dinner. Emily Trefusis later told this to Inspector Narracott, who followed up on this, believing that if Dering could lie about one part of his alibi, he could lie about the other--about what he did in the afternoon.