Kevin Charles

Prof. Kevin Charles was a suspect in the murder investigation of economics professor René Narcisse in Pain in the Neck (Case #38 of The Conspiracy) and a quasi-suspect in Game, Set, Murder (Case #40 of The Conspiracy).

Profile
Kevin is a Grimsborough University philosophy professor with balding grey hair, a mustache, a beard, a pair of glasses over his black eyes and wrinkles. He is seen wearing a white collared shirt with a dark blue tie underneath a brown Stockinette stitch vest. He is the author of two books: Is 42 the Answer? and The Philosophy of Economics, the latter of which he co-wrote with René. Additionally, Kevin is seen holding a book by Plato. It is known that Kevin is left-handed, uses Moist Mitts and plays Counter Compassion.

Pain in the Neck
Kevin became a suspect after Jones and the player found a book about the philosophy of economics, which was written by Kevin and the victim, René Narcisse. After knowing that Kevin and the victim wrote the book together, the team went to talk to Kevin. After expressing his sadness to the victim's death, Kevin told the team that co-writing a book with the victim was the greatest intellectual experience of his life. In the end of the conversation, Kevin told the team that he would have let them know any important information about the victim if he had remembered some.

Later, Kevin was spoken to again after the team found a slide projector in the victim's lecture hall and learned that René had been proposing to cut the philosophy department's budget and spend the money on his own economics department. Answering about this, Kevin angrily told the team that René did not just want to cut his funding, he wanted to undermine philosophy, calling that it was a dead subject. Kevin then admitted that co-writing the book with the victim was in truth a disaster as he always said that philosophy was useless.

Kevin was later found to be innocent after the team incarcerated Isabella Narcisse for the murder of René. However, Gloria and the player then talked to Kevin once again about Rozetta Pierre and Ad Astra. When being asked about this, Kevin nervously claimed that Ad Astra was just an "old study group" that convened in his classroom. He then hurriedly left the team, saying that he had a lecture to give.

Game, Set, Murder
After arresting Stephanie Griff's killer, Gloria and the player confronted him about his involvement in Ad Astra. After being identified as the inspiration behind the society, he explained that Ad Astra had started as a group of talented kids who would discuss the future together. However, he grew uncomfortable with the direction their conversations were going as he claimed that selective superiority was an age-old theoretical concept that should never be put into practice. When Gloria tried to get him to reveal the identities of the current members of the society, he claimed that he had been done with Ad Astra for years.

Case appearances

 * Pain in the Neck (Case #38 of The Conspiracy)
 * Deadeye (Case #39 of The Conspiracy; mentioned)
 * Game, Set, Murder (Case #40 of The Conspiracy)