A Gem of a Murder

They were all after the missing
diamonds. But which one had killed for the privilege?

The wife he had deserted twenty years
ago, a fading Southern belle who was vaguely firm that “he must have left some
money somewhere”…

“Maximillian Duckworth,” the little man
with the big henchmen—and his own covetous ideas about the dead man’s secret life…

The daughter he never acknowledged, who
had never seen him alive—and had little reason to mourn him dead…