{"product_id":"inheritance-of-solomon-farthing-the","title":"Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, The","description":"From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker – Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 – comes Mary Paulson-Ellis''s second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSolomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket – the only clue to the truth . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no Will to enact. Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and fifty thousand pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heir Hunter, Solomon Farthing – down on his luck, until, perhaps, now – is tipped off on this unexplained fortune. Armed with only the deceased’s name and the crumpled pawn ticket, he must find the dead man’s closest living relative if he is to get a cut of this much-needed cash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But in trawling through the deceased’s family tree, Solomon uncovers a mystery that goes back to 1918 and a group of eleven soldiers abandoned in a farmhouse billet in France in the weeks leading up to the armistice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set between contemporary Edinburgh and the final brutal days of the First World War as the soldiers await their orders, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing shows us how the debts of the present can never be settled unless those of the past have been paid first . . .","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57068273828175,"sku":"9781447293941","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781447293941_1-inheritance-of-solomon-farthing-the.jpg?v=1771488383","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/inheritance-of-solomon-farthing-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}