The Golden Box — Frances Crane

WEALTHY AND influential Mrs. Claribel Fabian Lake runs the town of Elm Hill to suit herself -- until death comes to claim her.

When she succumbs to a heart attack no one is sorry -- but the strange terms of her will sow new seeds of discord and hatred.

Her estate is to be divided between her three daughters -- but only after one of them, Valerie, reaches to age of forty, or in a mere matter of twenty-two years! And the sole administrator is Mrs. Lake's cousin, Ernest Fabian, who is scheduled to marry Claire Lake.

Suddenly one of Mrs. Lake's maids is murdered -- and it's only a step from that point for wily sleuth Pat Abbott to prove that Mrs. Lake was also a victim of violence! Then a thrilling chase for the killer begins -- and once more Pat Abbott scores in a baffling, breath-taking mystery!