Cynthia Wakeham's Money

Cynthia Wakeham's Money
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Bonnie Trost
This classic crime novel features the detective Ebenezer Grice, one of Anna Katherine Green's recurring characters.
A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed to her sister. At the end of the consultation, the woman dies. When the heir goes missing, it is suspected that the woman's death was not due to natural causes. Further investigation reveals that the woman and her sister were trapped in a reclusive lifestyle by a promise exacted by their uncaring and overbearing father. Each woman had a lover whom she wished to marry, but the unions were frustrated by the demands of the father. A major sinister figure is the woman's brother, who stands to gain from the death of the sister.