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Wish-Wash Short Stories

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FORMER town drunk Wish-Wash has never forgiven former mayor James Northan for making sure the world didn 't believe he saw a Tasmanian Tiger in the local bus shelter. Finally, he gets his revenge in this funny, quirky mystery from Australia. Everyone knows this fearsome marsupial is extinct. Or do they? Now in their eighties, Northan, Wish-Wash and another old codger called Oodles spend their days together on a park bench in the main street of Windy Mountain. When you get to their age you have to hang out with whoever is still alive. But this loose alliance ends the day Wish-Wash finds out Northan is trying to swindle him out of a potential fortune. The rift coincides with the arrival of a mysterious Irishman who has come to manage the rundown Tasmanian Tiger Museum. …show more content…

But the memory doesn 't worry Wish-Wash. He also believes the museum wouldn 't even be there without him. When he and Oodles find out the dodgy owners of the museum don 't want Paddy there (because they think he 's an undercover cop), they indulge in some secret doggy business at Northan 's expense to make sure he stays and the Tasmanian Tiger legend stays

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