Stanley Spark

Stanley Spark was a suspect during the murder investigation of chess player Casper Rove in Checkmate (Case #14 of Mysteries of the Past).

Profile
Stanley is a 28-year-old inventor who made the "Fantastic Suit". He has short dark red hair and a pencil mustache. He wears a white long sleeved shirt with a light green cravat and a brown and gold vest which has a pocket watch in the front pocket. It is known that Stanley drinks espresso, knows physics, and has hearing loss.

Events of Criminal Case
Stanley became a suspect after the player and Isaac found the message he sent to the victim saying he would lose either way. Though he said it sad for a young life to be gone so early, he said human chess players would be obsolete one day. And that was because he felt machines were the way forward for such things like chess. Though Isaac disagreed on that fact, Stanley felt humans were capable of much better things than chess, especially with the help of machines. He felt that there was no way Casper would beat the Chessmaton, and even if he beat it would eventually happen one day, hence why he wrote the victim that note.

Stanley was spoken to again regarding a ledger stating he canceled his bet against the victim at the last minute. He did not bother to hide he had money on the Chessmaton, but said he later decided to cancel that bet. The reason being he overheard the victim may have had an unfair advantage over the Chessmaton, hence why Stanley decided to cancel the bet. When asked if he made Casper pay for his unfair advantage, Stanley said he did not do anything of that nature, he simply canceled the bet and moved on.

Stanley was found to be innocent after the team incarcerated Bron Sklar for Casper's murder. Later on, it was shown that Stanley was working on a "Fantastical Suit" for the World Exhibition.

Trivia

 * Spark Industries is an obvious parody of Stark Industries, a fictional company owned and run by Tony Stark (Iron Man).

Case appearances

 * Checkmate (Case #14 of Mysteries of the Past)