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The warmth of him, the glorious warmth, was fading by the minute. In a huge old school house by the sea, full of precious paintings, Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him and mourns. She knows that soon, despite her being his sole inheritor, Thomas's relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives. And descend they do. The two needy daughters, who were poisoned against their father by their defecting mother, are now poison themselves. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners and eccentrics, Di sets a trap to hoist the family…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2014HarperCollins Publishers · 320 pages · 9780062305473
- Other · English · 2013309 pages · 9780751549683
- Other · English · 2012Witness/Harper-collins · 9780751549676
InheritanceFamiliesFictionFiction, generalDetective and mystery storiesInheritance and successionFiction, thrillers, generalFiction, thrillers, suspense




