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Dead Men's Money

Author
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 44 minutes
ISBN
9781836104636
Published
24 July 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • murder mystery
  • hidden fortune
  • amateur detective
  • secret identity
  • suspicious lodger
  • inheritance
  • crime investigation
  • deception
  • buried secrets
  • classic detective fiction

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Description

Hugh Moneylaws is pulled into danger when a secretive lodger brings murder, cryptic messages, and the lure of a forgotten fortune into his family home. False identities and buried secrets thicken with every clue. Spoken as when dead men’s money still asks what a young man will risk once blood has already marked the path.

Author

J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) treated the detective story as a trade, and honoured it. He produced at a Victorian-Edwardian pace that later Golden Age writers would recognise: wills, country houses, city chambers, and the long English suspicion that respectability is a costume. Fletcher is not flashy. He is reliable — which, in crime fiction, is a kind of style.

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