Over time, this page will be updated with interviews, images, and all things relevant to The Clearwater Family. They aren’t really a family, but you know what I mean; the group of men and women who make up the close friends of The Clearwater Mysteries.

Scroll down the page to read the interviews that we have had so far, there will be more of these character interviews in time. I am also commissioning drawings of each character, and these are what illustrate this page.

The pencil drawings are done for me by an artist known as DazlingDezigns in India. Other images, such as Silas and Andrej on the cover of ‘Banyak & Fecks’, are created by Anjela K in Belgrade, Serbia.

To learn more about the Clearwater Family (with no story spoilers), click on their names.

James Joseph Wright

Messenger, footman, valet, detective.
Born January 10th, 1863, Riverside, London

Andrej Borysko Yakiv Kolisnychenko aka Fecker

Coachman & Master of the Larkspur Horse
Born around 1867 in Serbka, Ukraine

Jasper Blackwood

Assistant Housekeeper and virtuoso pianist
Born 1871, Paris and bought up in the Lambeth workhouse

Thomas Arthur Payne

Footman, Valet, Steward, Butler
Born May 5th, 1861, Romney Marsh, Kent

A Friday Gallery

Posted on 24/07/2026 by Jack Marsh

[This post was meant to go up on my personal site, www.symidream.com, but I put it here by mistake, then deleted the photos from my PC, realised what I’d done and… Well, why not share it with my readers here, and link to it from my other site over there? Sorry about that, but here we are!]

I was thinking of fun and positive things on which to end the week, and came up with the idea of another little gallery of photos, both recent and from the last couple of years. Before that, though, I wanted to draw your attention to a free eBook, should you fancy finding out what my book blathering is all about. I’ve just finished a series of 12 novels, all mysteries, starting in June 1892 and finishing in June 1894. They are ongoing, in that characters remain and develop, so they are all linked in that way, and they are mainly set in London. (One takes us to Suffolk.)

If you want to take a free gander, you need to sign up to my newsletter before the end of the month, and as long as the ‘system’ works as it should do, you will get a link to where you can download a generic EPUB file. This, you should then be able to add to your preferred reading device, such as your Kindle. I’ve not done this before, but I am assured it is quite simple. (If you have problems, an online search will reveal how.)

To find out more about the series, click here.

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As Tony Hart used to say and sign on Vision On, ‘And now for the gallery.’