The Will Of Joan Goode, 1793 - Falconer, Julius
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An 18th-century will stipulates that a large estate will go to a distant relative, but there is a condition: the beneficiary's family must change its name to Goode and adopt the family coat of arms. The beneficiary accepts the rural Yorkshire estate, but the family never changes its name from Hotham. Nearly 200 years later, in 1973, a Goode descendent threatens to dispossess the Hothams, until murder prevents the plan from succeeding. The inspector appointed to the case is left with the unenviable task of discovering who, in the cast of suspects, has the most urgent need to pursue alternative…mehr

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An 18th-century will stipulates that a large estate will go to a distant relative, but there is a condition: the beneficiary's family must change its name to Goode and adopt the family coat of arms. The beneficiary accepts the rural Yorkshire estate, but the family never changes its name from Hotham. Nearly 200 years later, in 1973, a Goode descendent threatens to dispossess the Hothams, until murder prevents the plan from succeeding. The inspector appointed to the case is left with the unenviable task of discovering who, in the cast of suspects, has the most urgent need to pursue alternative plans. Author Julius Falconer takes readers on a jaunt through history in The Will of Joan Goode 1793. The novelist also lives in Yorkshire, "but unfortunately, not on an ancestral estate."
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When Warwickshire-born Julius Falconer retired from what seemed a lifetime labouring at the chalk face in Cornwall and Scotland, he turned his hand to furthering a lifetime dream, namely producing a detective story which relied on reasoning; which teased and stimulated; which was well-written; which offered the discerning reader a plausible story; and, finally, which provided entertainment without sex and violence. His books set out not to topple the acknowledged greats - as if! - but to complement them with something perhaps a little homelier. The present book is his twentieth