Inquisitor variabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

[1] The shell is yellowish brown, sometimes irregularly maculated with chestnut, with chestnut spots on a narrow band below the suture.

The spire is long and turreted.

The large sinus is ascending.

[2] This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands.