Who is Scobie?

Joshua Scobie is a character from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. From the Literary Encyclopedia:

"Perhaps most colourful of all is aging policeman Scobie, whose ultimately fatal “tendencies” involve dressing up as a woman during the full moon and trolling for British sailors on shore leave. . . In other developments, Scobie is kicked to death by outraged British sailors, but is elevated to sainthood by his Muslim neighbors; his bathtub, in which he was wont to prepare a lethal “Mock Whisky”, becomes a holy relic."

For more scintillating plot twists along those same lines: http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10820

Scobie was also our cat for awhile.