Preston Giles (Murder She Wrote)

Preston Jiles is the main antagonist in the episode "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" of the Tv series Murder She Wrote. Preston Jiles was the publisher and lover of the main protagonist Jessica Fletcher. As revealed later on he was also an escaped convict. Years ago he had helped built an apartment building wihich had unknowlingly had collapsed resutling in the death of several people. Preston was held responsible and sent to prison. Three of Preston's business partners  were denied charges. Two years later Preson had managed to escape prison. The police believed that Preston had  died in the attempt. However a private detective named  Dexter Baxendale believed that Preston was alive. Baxendale showed up at Preston's mansion the night he was giving at party where everybody was dresed as their favorite fictional charcacter. Baxendale called  Preston as arranged a  11'ock meeting by the pool. Baxendale began blackmailing  Preston. In a fit of rage, Preston took a gun from the gun rack and shot the detective. He then took a sherlock holmes costume that his neighbor Caleb Macallum was wearing the night of the party. So the cops would believe that Callub was the original target. Realizing that if the cops started looking through the detectives files they would come across his name. Preston then killed Calub so that the police would close the case. What gave Preston away was that on the night of the party he was tallking on the phone with someone and when Jessica asked him who it was. He said that it was a male reporter who wanted to interview Jessica, but as it turned out the reporter that wanted to interview Jesca was a woman.