Winifred Carter Winifred Carter Winifred Carter (c. 1883–1949) was an English author and playwright, who was particularly active from the 1920s–40s ("not to be confused with Winifred S Carter, an American celebrity chef and cookery author also active from the 1920s–40s"). She was also the mother of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonett and the wife of novelist John L. Carter and actress and playwright Edith Carter. Winifred Carter's most successful work was probably her 1945 novel "Princess Fitz", which was made into a 1947 film of the same name. It is a romance set in 1783, which chronicles the
Shawn Spencer to solve a crime. Despite his high intelligence, Shawn does appear to have a poor grasp of history and other fields (assigned to write about a U.S. President, he wrote a paper on the fictional character from the movie "Dave" who he thought was real). He is also chided by Henry for not knowing all the details of a case beforehand (in one episode, Shawn is about to accuse an innocent man of murder before Henry stops him and reveals a detail Shawn would know from the case file he didn't read). Often, Shawn will accept a case without fully