Janet Winston-Rogers

JANET WINSTON-ROGERS

Janet Winston-Rogers first contacted me by letter appealing for my professional help in a case she would only discuss further in person. She keeps an uptown address on 5th Avenue, obviously filthy rich. She claims to have got my name through Billingsley, which is entirely probable (is there anyone he doesn't know). I'm to meet her at the Floyd Bennett Field in New York on the 31st October at 9 o’clock.

Turns out, Janet Winston-Rogers, was the daughter of the late Walter Winston, of Winston Pharmaceuticals. The old man had died in July of this year (1934), making Janet the sole heiress to the Winston fortune. Janet had already inherited a vast sum of money, after her late husband, Horatio Rogers, was killed in an automobile accident in 1933. Dunn ensured me that there was no foul play involved in their deaths, making Janet Winston-Rogers, a legitimately wealthy woman.

At the meeting, she told us how her father traveled the world studying folklore and had developed an interest in the occult. In 1924 he had been on the trail of some “bad people”, as he called them, but Walter wouldn’t tell them exactly who they were. 

Mrs Winston-Rogers hired us with a generous retainer and sizable resources to find out what her father had been involved in and exactly what had transpired in '24. Her only real leads were some unanswered letters from her father's associate, Douglas Henslowe.