The Substitute Millionaire
1919
Jack Norman is a bookkeeper drowning in drudgery, counting someone else's millions on a salary that barely keeps him fed. Then Silas Gyde, the region's most hated miser, is murdered in his locked mansion, and Jack learns the impossible: he's the sole heir to a fortune that once belonged to the man everyone wanted dead. Suddenly, the fantasy of wealth becomes a dangerous reality. Someone killed Gyde for that money. Someone might kill again. Hulbert Footner's 1919 novel crackles with period tension and sharp social commentary. Jack must learn to be wealthy while learning who he can trust, all while romance complicates his transformation from struggling clerk to man of means. The money was bloodstained before it reached him, and the shadows of Gyde's legacy follow every step into his new life. It's a story about what happens when the poor man gets everything he ever wanted, and discovers that wanting was easier than holding.
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