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Book SynopsisAn inheritance comes with its own sinister dangers... 'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others' New York Times Book Review
Trade ReviewFor devotees of murder in marshy English by-ways, a suspenseful account of leeches moving in on a fortune * N J MORNING TELEGRAPH *
The Fortune Hunters transports the reader to a fog shrouded English village with a Roman ruin and a falling castle...Annette Sheldon is one of those rash English girls with a lot of money and unsuitable suitors, plus a tall house full of secrets right next door to her redecorated cottage * FORT WORTH STAR *
Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others * NEW YORK TIMES *
