Inheritance Tracks
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Detectives Sloan and Crosby investigate a fatal inheritance settlement in the twenty-fifth instalment of this popular cozy mystery series
Four strangers arrive at the solicitors' office of Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery. They have never met, and have no idea why they have been invited. But they – along with a missing man – are descendants of the late Algernon George Culver Mayton, the inventor of ‘Mayton's Marvellous Mixture’ and each entitled to a portion of the Mayton Fortune. But before they can split the money, the missing man must be found.
Two months later, Detectives Sloan and Crosby receive a call that one of the legatees has died following an attack of food poisoning. Did the deceased merely ingest a noxious substance by accident, or are the legatees being picked off one-by-one?
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In Aird's quaintly archaic 26th Sloan and Crosby mystery (after 2016's Learning Curve), five individuals of varying ages and backgrounds gather at a solicitors' office in Berebury, England, where they learn that they are the heirs along with one other individual, Daniel Elland, who has proven impossible to locate of Algernon George Culver Mayton, who generations ago invented Mayton's Marvellous Mixture. This dubious patent medicine has earned a vast fortune, which, upon either finding the missing Elland or after a seven-year wait having him declared legally dead, will be divided among the remaining legatees. While the search continues for Elland, one of the five, Susan Port, dies in unusual circumstances. Det. Insp. C.D. Sloan and his bumptious colleague, Detective Constable Crosby, investigate. Why and how was Port murdered? Are the other heirs at risk? Where is Daniel Elland? This is a jolly little brainteaser, with a full complement of eccentric characters and plausible, if zany, suspects and motives. Fans of traditional puzzle mysteries will have fun.
