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"Death has a Will" places fans of Amelia Reynolds Long's detective duo in a richly plotted Golden Age sleuth story. Stephen Carter is called by the elderly Mrs. Marsden to draft a new will that disinherits her grandchildren, setting off a chain of suspicion. The anxious grandson, Ralph, seeks evidence that Mrs. Marsden is mentally unfit, but he is killed before the will can be contested. Stephen, with his astute brother Jefferson, a district attorney, confronts a tangled set of motives, hidden motives, and a chilling mystery that looms beyond the book’s final pages.
First publish date: 1944
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Amelia Reynolds Long
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