CHAPTER 9THE disappearance of Miss Nettie’s will changed the whole situation in a way that is easily apparent. Unless the will were found, or another in its place, it meant that the old woman had died intestate. If that was so, her property would be divided equally between her niece, Gail, and her three nephews, Richard, Chase and Eliot. And a motive for the murder would be established that would be hard to get around.
It’s odd how totally insignificant things become important in light of something else. It really isn’t, of course, I suppose, because few things are ever significant except in their relation to something else. As I sat at my desk thinking of the possibilities of this new complication, I remembered hearing not long ago that Chase Wyndham’s business was very shaky, and that h
