A woman receives a deadly inheritance from her father in this thriller by a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, "one of America's favorite writers" (Mary Higgins Clark).
"Mignon Eberhart's name on mysteries is like sterling on silver." -
The Miami News
Well-known criminal lawyer Orle Hilliard lived an expensive lifestyle and possessed expensive secrets-secrets some of his clients would prefer to remain hidden. Before his death, Orle wrote blackmail letters to five clients in a last-ditch effort to provide security for his only daughter. But now that he's dead, he's left young Fran Hilliard in Italy with nothing but trouble...
When a recipient of one of the letters finds Fran in Nice, she finds herself thrust into a shadowy world of danger. Suddenly she is frantically piecing together the life of a father she barely knew and searching for a diary that could reopen the case of an unsolved murder... and potentially prevent another...
"Mignon Eberhart is one of the great ladies of twentieth-century mystery fiction." -John Jakes
Originally published in 1965.
