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The Curious Affair of the Missing Will

Book 3 in The Marchioness of Merritt Mysteries

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by Beatrice Marlowe

Lord Ashcombe has died, and his will has vanished. The only person who knew its contents was his solicitor, Mr. Alaric Fenwick—a man whose temper is as volatile as his signature. When the will reappears, it names a beneficiary who is already dead. When the second beneficiary is found murdered in his own library, the stakes rise from financial ruin to bloodshed. Enter Eleanor Ashworth, Marchioness of Merritt, a woman who finds the rigid propriety of the Season far more suffocating than a locked room. With the help of her sharp-eyed maid Sarah Bell and the exasperated Inspector Hale, Eleanor must navigate a web of forged documents, furious heirs, and one truly insufferable solicitor before the third body is found. Because in the world of the aristocracy, a missing will is never just a lost paper; it is a declaration of war.