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The Mystery Box, short stories by Frederick Highland taking their inspiration from philatelic images

Night Falls on Damascus, a novel by Frederick Highland, set in Damascus during the French Mandate
Ghost Eater, a novel set in turn of the century Sumatra, by Frederick Higland
    
Stamp Whys

Puzzlers!

StampWhys - Puzzlers with Attitude!

Mystery

The Clearing
An "old fisherman" reports to the Magistrate

History

The Emperor's Garden
The Emperor's Garden

Stamps

Philately - The Fiction Connection
Sushi! Yum!


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The Magistrate

This business about the purple veil and the wristwatch is most interesting.

Red Footed Falcon The Bird: Red Footed Falcon magnifylarge JPEG

It would seem these details clear Mrs. Kiwi of the murder of her husband, yet we have her own confession. Could such a confession have been concocted to protect her former lover, the notorious Fish Hawk?

Fish Hawk has also confessed, and this adds yet another homicide to the long list of his murders. However all his previous victims were female, so how heroic it makes him seem, to have defeated a warrior kiwi in a fair fight. And didn't he say the girl with the soldier was the soldier's "wife"?

This brings us back to the mother of Mrs. Kiwi, mother-in-law of the murdered soldier. Isn't there something to be doubted in a mother's testimony which protects her erring daughter? Then again, the Old Fisherman did say he saw someone watching from the reeds.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of the missing girlfriend, the one who wore the lavender veil?

I believe I will retire to my chambers and reflect further on this most curious case.

~ The End ~

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