The Golden Box

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!