The inheritance
By: Simon Tolkien
Series: Inspector Trave -- 1; Inspector Trave -- 1.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780007454198
Subjects: Bill Trave (Fictitious character); Fiction; Inheritance and succession; Lost works of art
Description: "When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement - and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. When his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, Stephen's guilt seems undeniable. But there were five other people in the manor house at the time, and as their stories slowly emerge - along with the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II - the race is on to save Stephen from a death sentence. Everyone has a motive, and no one is telling the truth. Unwilling to sit by and watch the biased judge condemn Stephen to death, an ageing police inspector decides to travel from England to France to find out what really happened in that small French village in 1945 - and what artifact could be so valuable it would be worth killing for."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Minotaur, 2010.