Major Henry Scobie, a long-serving policeman in a British colony on the West Coast of Africa during World War II, is responsible for local and wartime security.

Scobie is passed over for promotion to Commissioner, which upsets Louise both for her personal ambition and her hope that the local British community will begin to accept her.

Scobie is called to a small inland town to deal with the suicide of the local inspector, a man named Pemberton, who was in his early twenties and left a note implying that his suicide was due to a loan he couldn ’ t repay.

* Yusef – Syrian local black marketeer who blackmails Scobie after finding a letter in which he expresses his love for Helen.

After the intervention of the British forces in Greece led by Scobie in favor of the government, EAM was defeated, and Siantos faced a fierce criticism by his own comrades for his choices ; even Zachariadis called him " agent of the British ".

A letter he writes to Helen ends up in Yusef's hands, and the Syrian uses it to blackmail Scobie into sending a package of diamonds for him via the returning Esperança, thus avoiding the authorities.

Yusef denies it, but warns Scobie that the British have sent a new inspector specifically to look for diamonds ; Scobie claims this is a hoax and that he doesn't know of any such man.

He illustrates this theme by describing Scobie, the main character of the book, as " a weak man with good intentions doomed by his big sense of pity ".

Yusef offers to lend Scobie the money at four percent per annum.

" Scobie had begun to doubt Ali's loyalty, and he hinted this distrust to Yusef.

We are led to believe that Yusef arranged the death of Ali, although Scobie blames himself for the matter.

Richard Scobie, class of 1956, and then outgoing chapter president, personally resigned his affiliation with the national fraternity in a letter in which he accused Phi Sigma Kappa of " black reactionary ideals.

* 2006 – Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey ( b. 1914 )

On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.

Others claim that Jonathan Scobie ( or Jonathan Goble ), an American missionary to Japan, invented the rickshaw around 1869 to transport his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama.

* In Lawrence Durrell's novel Balthazar, the second part of his Alexandria Quartet, Melissa, Scobie and Balthazar are each seen as having moments of prophetic sight.

Scobie also cross-dresses, thus implying the androgyny of Tiresias.

It deals with Catholicism and moral change in Scobie ( a police officer ) in a British West African Colony.

Scobie feels responsible for her misery, but does not love her.

Scobie is a convert and devout.

Louise asks Scobie if she can go and live in South Africa to escape the life she hates.

Scobie finds it, and because it is addressed to someone in Germany, he must confiscate it in case it should contain secret codes or other clandestine information.

The captain says it ’ s a letter to his daughter and begs Scobie to forget the incident, offering him a bribe of one hundred pounds when he learns that they share a faith.

Scobie declines the bribe and takes the letter, but having opened and read it through ( thus breaking the rules ) and finding it innocuous, he decides not to submit it to the authorities, and burns it.

Scobie later dreams that he is in Pemberton's situation, even writing a similar note, but when he awakens, he tells himself that he could never commit suicide, as no cause is worth the eternal damnation that suicide would bring.

Scobie tries to secure a loan from the bank to pay the two hundred pound fee for Louise ’ s passage, but is turned down.

Scobie initially declines, but after an incident where he mistakenly thinks Louise is contemplating suicide, he accepts the loan and sends Louise to South Africa.

One young girl dies as Scobie tries to comfort her by pretending to be her father, who was killed in the wreck.

Scobie feels drawn to her, as much to the cherished album of stamps as to her physical presence, even though she is not beautiful.

Jack Ryan suspects the CIA's involvement in the situation in Colombia.

A few years after the Ambrosiano scandal, many suspects pointed toward Gelli with reference to his possible involvement in the murder of the Milanese banker Roberto Calvi, also known as " God's banker ", who had been jailed in the wake of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano.

At first under intense interrogation, the suspects admitted only to their involvement in the McLaverty abduction but Nesbitt, seizing on McAllister's references to the size of a knife used on McLaverty, had his team of detectives press the case and eventually most of the gang admitted their part in the activities of the Butchers.

There is only a closed circle of suspects to deal with, and Wimsey has no emotional involvement, although, having alerted the Police to Campbell's murder, he subsequently reflects that Campbell was a man anyone might feel justified in killing, and that the six suspects are all generally decent people.

Scotland Yard suspects Verloc's involvement in the plot and assigns Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer ( John Loder ) to investigate Verloc, initially under cover.

Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada,, held that statutes requiring suspects to disclose their names during police investigations did not violate the Fourth Amendment if the statute first required reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal involvement.

Murphy suspects the involvement of his old wartime nemesis, former United States Army Colonel F. E.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine suspects the involvement of Lazarenko ( with Yulia Tymoshenko ) in the murder of Donetsk businessman Yevhen Shcherban en Olexandr Momot in 1996 and the assassination of banker Vadym Hetman in 1998 ; Lazarenko has denied involvement in all these cases.

Initially focuses on Eddie and Lily, but soon suspects the involvement of larger government organizations.

The final section of the book covers the slow fading of the narrator's involvement in the tennis club, his futile attempts to restart the romance with Micòl, and his growing friendship with Malnate whom he suspects at the end of the book of having an affair with Micòl.

The Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 22 February 2005 and allows the Home Secretary to make " control orders " for people he suspects of involvement in terrorism, including placing them under house arrest, restricting their access to mobile telephones and the internet and requiring that visitors be named in advance, so that they may be vetted by MI5.

Unfortunately for the old man this proves fatal, yet nobody suspects Robert's involvement.

Marvin admits that he has lost contact with all of them and privately suspects alien involvement.

The mechanic happens to be a friend of Acko's, who, displeased at the news of his car being stolen, suspects Jimmy's involvement.

At first, detectives considered the Patzs as possible suspects, but they quickly determined the parents had no involvement.