What happens when a town's richest inhabitant dies, uncovering secrets many would prefer left untold?
One case, Henry thought as he started the car, seeing his father in his mind. You died and left me one thing to handle. And now I have to try to explain to a lunatic that he's the richest man in town.
A smart and successful lawyer in a large Chicago firm, Henry Matthewd has it all: youth, ambition, status, and the beautiful, demanding, Elaine. Working a sixty-hour week leaves Matthews little time to reflect on his rural Kansas hometown - until he returns to execute its wealthiest inhabitant's will.
But soon what should have been a routine legal matter becomes tortuously complicated, for Crandall has bequeathed his assets not to his grasping son, Robert, nor to his grief stricken wife, Margaret. Instead, in a bizarre twist, his death makes a homeless, lunatic tramp known as the Birdman the richest, most powerful man in town.
What lies behind Crandall's strange legacy? It falls to Matthews to examine the facts and, as a string of shocking secrets about the towns leading citizens begins to unravel, he must also confront the truth about himself.
A bit slow moving, but the mystery of the will and what is really going on kept me reading.
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