Dead Men’s Money by Joseph Smith Fletcher

A naïve but sincere young lawyer’s assistant who only dreams of marrying his childhood sweetheart and yearns to have a home and family with her. His sharp witted boss keeps the firm going by dint of shrewd business sense and legal talent. When the assistant accidentally stumbles into a murder case, the scene is set for events that change all their lives. Dead Men’s Money by Joseph Smith Fletcher was published in 1920, the era considered to be the Golden Age of detective fiction. Writers like Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon and many more from different parts of the world were writing hundreds of novels that followed a more or less similar style and pattern. Cozy country houses, remote and lonely locations, a closed group of people, a series of murders, a romantic interest, the incompetence of the local police, an amateur or professional sleuth who successfully unravels the mystery and a final explanation were the elemen...

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Saturday Dec 23, 2023

Dead Men’s Money by Joseph Smith Fletcher

Episodes

11 – Signtures to the Will

12 – The Salmon Gaff

13 – Sir Gilbert Carstairs

14 – Dead Men’s Money

15 – Five Hundred A Year

16 – The Man in the Cell

17 – The Irish Housekeeper

18 – The Ice Ax

19 – My Turn

20 – The Samaritan Skipper