the Curious Affair of Missing Will

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.