Lonely heiress; Dangerous widow

Author: Gardner (USA)
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
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The Lonely Heiress: Before his death, the wealthy George left his inheritance to his nurse Eleanor, who had carefully cared for him. However, Eleanor soon died in a car accident, and the estate was inherited by her daughter, Marlene. At this time, George's relatives, who had paid no attention to him during his lifetime, began plotting to reclaim the inheritance. They pushed Marlene into a situation where she was accused of murder. Thus, the lonely heiress turned to Mason for help.
The Dangerous Widow: An elderly woman with white hair, who cursed and called herself a dangerous widow, came to Mason and gave him a sum of money, asking him to go to the gambling ship "Cape of Abundance" to exchange three IOUs signed by her granddaughter for the gambling boat owner, but she did not want her granddaughter to know about it. She also told Mason that her granddaughter's husband was trying to use this matter to his own illegal advantage. When Mason came to the ship a second time to handle the matter, he was surprised to find that the granddaughter, her husband, and the old woman herself had all secretly appeared on the ship one after another. Later, he discovered that the gambling boat owner's head had been shot through with a gun. Who killed the person? Including Mason, everyone involved became suspects.