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Case File · Forensic · No. 009
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The Inkwell Inheritance
≈ 4 min
Elderly solicitor Archibald Dunmore was found dead at his desk on the morning of 5 July 1923, a signed codicil to his will lying beside him. His nephew, Gerald Dunmore, stands to inherit the entire estate under that codicil, but the housekeeper suspects the document was prepared after Archibald's death. Detective Inspector Morag Elliot must reconstruct the exact order of six events to determine whether the codicil is genuine. Place the events in the order they actually occurred.
The scene
A solicitor's office and adjacent townhouse, Edinburgh, 1923
The events
- Gerald types the codicil on Archibald's typewriter
- Housekeeper Mrs. Pringle discovers the body
- Archibald drafts a letter to his bank
- Gerald forges Archibald's signature on the codicil
- Archibald dies at his desk
- Gerald enters the study
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