Talleyrand Maxim
Author: first_name: J. S.
last_name: Fletcher
Language: English
Year: 1920

John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will.  His estate goes to his wife and two children and they live the good life for a number of years.  However, an old bookseller, whilst clearing some old books passed on from the Mallathorpe estate, finds a copy of Mallathorpe's will inside one of the books, and unfortunately for the family the will bequeaths the whole estate minus a small endowment for the family, to the city a