William Hawkins

Mild-mannered florist William Hawkins is the "squirrelly" and doting husband of Alice Hawkins. He features in Scions of the Dark Revelation and in the background of The Maiden and the Shadow.

The Scions of the Dark Revelation
Quiet and innocent-looking and motivated in all things (including his membership of the cult) by his adoration for his wife, Hawkins was maybe an easy target: set-up to believe he was responsible for the death of James Everson, it is not apparent whether he ever understood his own innocence.

He was however later involved in the bombing at the Snickleway although he let slip about the plot to Patricia Everson (deliberately?) allowing her to escape.

The Maiden and the Shadow
In the background to this mystery some remembered William Hawkins as having had a drink problem which became increasingly bad in the last year of his life. He apparently poisoned himself after his wife’s death. He left a rambling, drunken, tear-stained suicide note, confessing to the murder of James Everson and the bombing of the Snickelway, claiming of both deeds that other people made him do it.