Dead Men's Money

A dead man lies in a lonely room, his secrets buried with him. When a mysterious midnight meeting ends in murder, young solicitor Charles Garth arrives to claim an inheritance and finds himself tangled in a web of deception stretching back twenty years. Every witness lies. Every alibi crumbles. The money itself seems cursed, drawing greedy hands to bloody outcomes. Fletcher constructs his puzzle with precision: a locked room, a missing will, a cast of beneficiaries with motive to kill. But the true mystery lies in what happened on a train platform two decades earlier, where a young man walked away from his past and into a new identity. The body count rises as Charles digs deeper, uncovering debts, betrayal, and a fortune that has already claimed lives. This is Golden Age mystery at its most satisfying, where the reader plays fair with the detective and the solution satisfies both intellect and heart.