Claude Evans

Claude Evans is a non-canonical character created for ITV's 2009 adaptation of the novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans? He is a family friend of the Savage family and a frequent guest of Sylvia Savage at Castle Savage. Claude Evans is portrayed by Mark Williams.

Claude Evans lives nearby the Castle and has a hobby of growing orchids. His purpose in the plot is to serve mainly as misdirection. Bobby Attfield had heard a dying man John Carstairs utter: "Why didn't they ask Evans?" In helping him investigate the mystery, Bobby's friend Frankie Derwent was convinced Claude Evans must be the Evans that Carstairs meant. She was also convinced that he killed Carstairs and probably Jack Savage as well. However this was disproved very quickly when Claude is himself killed. At first the police were convinced that this was of natural causes but when Miss Marple strongly advised an autopsy, it was found that he died of snake venom.