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Cat's Paw

Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Cat's Paw

Cat's Paw

Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table, a genteel Washington murder that shocks society. She'd been thought penniless, but when her will is read, her niece Kitty inherits a fortune. Now everyone is watching the two suitors who have been courting Kitty with such evident interest. Were they after her heart or her suddenly considerable wealth? Clues multiply, then dissolve. The innocent look guilty; the guilty look innocent. Only in the final chapters does the truth emerge, and the real murderer's methods are as shocking as they are devious. A cleverly plotted 1920s mystery where nothing is as it seems, Cat's Paw asks what happens when love, money, and murder collide in polite company.

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Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been penniless...

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