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Detective Stories by Cotton Mather Winston

Biographical Notes

The Missing Fingerprints

The Gaggle of Geese

The Sincere Spy

Wild Oats

Greek Fire

Deus ex Machina

A Capital Crime

Lady FitzFirbolg's Parrot

The Mystery of Abbot's Tower

A Fictitious Fungus

More Stories to Come... (maybe)

Partial Chronology of Cases

Non-WBW Stories

Murder in Albemarle Street
[This is a memoir by Wildman's friend Inspector Aphid]

Death and the Vanishing Goblin (a Pastiche)
[A bonus for fans of John Dickson Carr]

The Problem of the Blue Blood Cell
[An entry in Mystericale Magazine's first short story contest]

Cotton Mather Winston was a Bostonian who worked in a Lunatic Asylum in Crickleswade, England, in the 1960s. He either knew the great turn-of-the-century detective William Blackstone Wildman and transcribed the old man's reminiscences, or was actually a mental patient himself and invented them. (Another alternative is that Wildman himself was a patient and just imagined he had solved the crimes described in these stories.) We will never know, since the Asylum burnt down and everyone there was killed in 1972 when a Hawker Harrier on training maneuvers crashed into it and exploded. One must note that this was definitely a high-class loony bin, in that inmates had their own rooms and possessions and were allowed to drink port -- call it more an expensive old-folks' home.--Grobius Shortling

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