Cynthia Wakehams Money

A melodramatic mystery, in which a young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar.

• The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual occurrences.
• Events then take a very sinister turn...

• This one also has a particularly melodramatic villain.
• Greens stories are full of mystery and written in an elegant manner, true to the time period in which the story is set.

As ever, with Anna Katherine Green, this early novel features love-struck young men; high-minded ladies with a propensity to faint, and whose reticence is essential to the plot; plus detailed legal knowledge.