Inspector Mackenzie

Inspector Mackenzie is a fictional Scottish police officer. He is recurring character in the Raffles stories written by Ernest William Hornung. Mackenzie is a Scotland Yard detective, on the trail of a Gentleman thief who has commited a number of burgalries on members of British High Society.

Mackenzie is continually frustrated by Arthur Raffles whom he has suspected for many years, but has never been able provide a shred of evidence against. Mackenzie constantly watches Raffles hoping that he will eventually slip up. Despite the mutual antipathy, there is a cordial relatonship and a grudging respect between the two. While Mackenzie is constantly outwitted by Raffles, it is suggested that he is a very dilligent and effective policeman when it comes to other cases.

Occasionally he and Raffles work together, such as in the short story The Gift of the Emperor in which the two cooperate to recover a pearl from a German emmisary on the orders of the Foreign Office, thereby saving the British government from a embarrising scandal.