BARNESIVERSE CASE FILE · 014ARRESTED
BLACKMAILER
The English Teacher
AFFILIATION
Education
APPEARS IN
Defender! (2000)
THREAT ASSESSMENT
DANGER4 / 10
SUSPICION8 / 10
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT
“Blackmailing a football club while simultaneously helping investigate the blackmail”
FIELD NOTES
Enlisted by Barnes to analyse linguistic clues left by the anonymous blackmailer, known, only to Steve and Sir Laurence, as 'Chummy.' Revealed on the final page of Defender! to be the blackmailer themselves. Whether this constitutes a twist depends on your definition of the word.