Jennings (The Love Detectives)

In the short story The Love Detectives, Jennings was Sir James Dwighton's valet. After returning from a game of golf and having some tea, Sir James asked for Jennings to bring him some soft slippers. This took place around 6.10 pm. That made Jennings the last person definitely known to see Sir James alive. Moreover, according to Lady Laura Dwighton, Sir James had told her that morning of his death that he had dismissed Jennings because he had caught the valet pilfering. This grudge gave Jennings a plausible motive for the murder of his master.

Mr Satterthwaite observed that Jennings was a narrow-faced man with a catlike tread. "Something sly and secretive about him". Satterthwaite thought of him as the type of man who would easily murder if he could be sure of not being found out.