Who doesn’t love a great inheritance story? Whether characters are bequeathed money, companies, property, etc., we enjoy finding out who got what. It’s like a mystery-within-a-mystery when you have to wait along with the characters to find out who got everything, like in Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Then there’s The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, in which readers find out which stranger will win it all in a competition.

The other side of those stories is that if there are fewer people to inherit, there’s more for whoever is left. Annnnd , that’s usually when the murders start. Sometimes, it turns out the murder was all for nothing, because the will ends up containing a big surprise!

In conclusion, please feel free to leave me all you’ve got, and also everything about inheritance mysteries is a rollicking, murderous good time.…