The Ides of March
by E. W. Hornung
Tonight, for once, we are not on the side of the law. A desperate young man has lost more at the card table than he can possibly pay…
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Let the Dead Bank Lie
Original mysteryNo. 551 hr 12 minMiss Marple
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Scotland: after a bitter solicitor dies, his heir inherits not peace but a paper-obsessed legacy — anonymous block-capital threats, a missing green-ribbon packet, forced deed-boxes, and a hidden memorandum book beneath a study floorboard — while a sharp-eyed village sleuth reads the household like a ledger and discovers the danger isn't an 1811 robbery at all, but a modern, respectable man using old shame as leverage; Let the Dead Bank Lie is an original Golden Age-style mystery about inheritance, fear, and the small mistakes that betray the greedy.
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