# Collishaw — The Paradise Mystery character guide

> Collishaw in The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Collishaw, James Collishaw, This Collishaw, The Collishaw

**First appearance:** 0000-i-only-the-guardian

## Snapshot

A verger whose name surfaces in Flood's confession as the man paid fifty pounds to hold his tongue — and who died soon after receiving it.

## Who they are

Collishaw belongs to the shadowy margin of the case, a man whose silence was worth money to Wraye, or Folliot, and whose sudden death turns a bribe into something far darker. Flood's account of the fifty pounds, and of his own fear of Wraye, places Collishaw at the hinge between petty hush-money and murder. He never speaks for himself in the passages, yet his fate is what pushes the investigators toward Folliot's guarded garden and the secret he keeps there.

## Relationships

### [Mary Bewery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mary_bewery)

_professional_

Collishaw, likely a servant or employee, interacts with Mary in a subordinate capacity, possibly as a caretaker or assistant.

### [Inspector Mitchington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/inspector_mitchington)

_professional_

Collishaw assists Inspector Mitchington with local knowledge and access to the Bewery household.

### [Dr. Mark Ransford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/dr_mark_ransford)

_professional_

Collishaw works under Dr. Ransford's direction, possibly as a medical assistant or household staff.

### [Inspector Mitchington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/inspector_mitchington)

_professional_

Collishaw assists Inspector Mitchington with local knowledge and access to the Bewery household.

### [Mary Bewery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/mary_bewery)

_professional_

Collishaw, likely a servant or employee, interacts with Mary in a subordinate capacity, possibly as a caretaker or assistant.

### [Dr. Mark Ransford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/characters/dr_mark_ransford)

_professional_

Collishaw works under Dr. Ransford's direction, possibly as a medical assistant or household staff.

## In the story

### [XII: Murder of the Mason’s Labourer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/chapters/xii-murder-of-the-mason-s-labourer)

Mason's labourer found dead in Paradise; confirmed poisoned with hydrocyanic acid.

### [XIX: The Subtlety of the Devil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/chapters/xix-the-subtlety-of-the-devil)

Collishaw is theorized to have been blackmailing Braden's assailant and was poisoned with hydrocyanic acid.

### [The Unexpected](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_paradise_mystery_se/chapters/xxiii-the-unexpected)

Referenced as a witness to Braden's death, allegedly killed by Ransford.

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