
John Sherren had three aged relatives whom he thought to have quite a bit of money. He had already attended the inquest of two, who had died suddenly, soon after John had visited them. Now there was only one - his aunt, Clara Bond left. Will she be that obliging too?

1899 – 9 December 1973
Pen name of English crime author Lucy Beatrice Malleson (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gilbert_(author)>Wikipedia</a>). Born in London, she spent all her life there, and her affection for the city is clear from the strong sense of character and place in evidence in her work. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best known character, Arthur Crook, a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately) unlike the aristocratic detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey, who dominated the mystery field at the time. She also wrote more than 25 radio plays, which were broadcast in Great Britain and overseas. Her thriller *The Woman in Red* (1941) was broadcast in the Uni…
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