# Detective Inspector Nash — The Man Who Knew character guide

> Detective Inspector Nash in The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Inspector Nash, Nash, Mr. Nash

**First appearance:** 0009-x-a-murder

## Snapshot

A Scotland Yard man who knows the limits of official policing, Nash steers a worried millionaire toward the one investigator who never needs to make inquiries.

## Who they are

Nash appears in the company of Sir George Fuller, weighing the threats against John Minute and concluding that nothing more remarkable than ordinary fortune-hunting is at work. Rather than chase shadows himself, he endorses Saul Arthur Mann — 'The Man Who Knows' — as the man who can settle Minute's anxieties in minutes. His professional restraint and his willingness to defer to a private genius frame the novel's contrast between plodding procedure and intuitive omniscience, and his referral sets the plot's investigative machinery in motion.

## Relationships

### [Frank Merrill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/frank_merrill)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash works with Frank to solve the case, though he remains professionally detached.

### [Jasper Cole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/jasper_cole)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash suspects Jasper Cole of being the mastermind behind the crimes.

### [Frank Merrill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/frank_merrill)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash works with Frank to solve the case, though he remains professionally detached.

### [Jasper Cole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/jasper_cole)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash suspects Jasper Cole of being the mastermind behind the crimes.

### [Frank Merrill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/frank_merrill)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash works with Frank to solve the case, though he remains professionally detached.

### [Jasper Cole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/characters/jasper_cole)

_professional_

Detective Inspector Nash suspects Jasper Cole of being the mastermind behind the crimes.

## In the story

### [John Minute's Legacy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/chapters/v-john-minute-s-legacy)

Mentioned as the police commissioner who advises John Minute to see Saul Arthur Mann.

### [XI: The Case Against Frank Merrill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_who_knew_se/chapters/xi-the-case-against-frank-merrill)

Police inspector in charge of the case; presents evidence against Merrill and notes the new motive revealed in the will.

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