Bill Sweetan

William "Bill" Sweetan ("my friends call me Ace") is a recurrent character in the Cthulhu Mythos fiction of American author Ron Shiflet. He made his first appearance in the short story "The Scales of Justice", published in the 2008 collection Looking for Darla: Stories of Mythos Noir.
==History==
Sweetan earned his nickname of Ace in school, when his friends discovered that he was a skilled baseball pitcher.
During the Second World War, Sweetan served in the armed forces, although in what capacity is unknown. He was captured by the Japanese and spent much of the duration of the war in a prison camp, having survived an unspecified death march at the hands of his captors, and remaining interred on the Philippine island of Corregidor until its liberation in 1945.
Sweetan later set up his own private detective agency in the small city of Arkham, where he primarily conducted background checks for some of the region's larger organisations, and developed a special relationship with Miskatonic University.
While in Innsmouth on a case, Sweetan met an Idahoan woman named Molly Connors, who he subsequently employed as his secretary. Although Sweetan and Connors appear to harbour romantic feelings for each other, no actual relationship between the two has yet come to be realised.
===Cases===
*Arkham: Sweetan investigated the case of amateur herpetologist Warren Peasley who had been receiving mysterious letters demanding he "Return the child". The case ended in the death of Peasley at the hands of the Great Old One Yig.
*Innsmouth: in 1952, while investigating the disappearance of a young woman, Sweetan and Connors bore witness as she embraced her Deep One heritage.
==Behind the Mythos==
In his story notes for the 2017 edition of Looking for Darla: Stories of Mythos Noir, creator Ron Shiflet states that "The truth is that there was an ongoing mental tussle at the time as to whether I should focus on Sweetan or Wade Kearney as an ongoing character in my fiction. They are pretty much the same person but I eventually seemed to settle on Kearney."
==Appearances==
*"The Scales of Justice" (2008)
*"Looking for Darla" (2008)
Category:Humans
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works