El Tesoro Misterioso

Burton Blair died in a Manchester hotel room with a fortune no one could explain and a secret he took to his grave. His friends Gilberto Greenwood and Reginaldo Seton stand at his deathbed, not mourning, but calculating. They watched Blair rise from nothing to unimaginable wealth, and now they're left with nothing but questions. What did he know? Where did it come from? And more urgently - who else might be looking for the answer? As the two men begin to dig into their friend's mysterious past, they discover that Blair's money came from somewhere dark, and that others are willing to kill for the truth he carried. Trust becomes a liability. Loyalty, a weakness. And the treasure they seek might be the very thing that destroys them. Le Queux weaves a deliciously paranoid tale of Edwardian England, where wealth hides sins and every handshake might be a threat. It's a story about what friendship really means when money is involved, and how the pursuit of secrets can become more dangerous than the secrets themselves.