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Twelve-year old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass look for the hidden will left by an eccentric cereal tycoon who wished to make life difficult for his heirs after his own death by suicide.

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritancesubjects: Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Detective Stories, Apartment Houses, Newbery Medal Winner 1979.

Thirteen-year-old Gerald inherits twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from his great-aunt Geraldine, a relative he never knew, but the fortune comes with a letter that informs him Geraldine was murdered and that it is up to him to solve the crime.

After a near disaster, when the boat Nancy and her two friends were in gets caught in a horrible storm, a mystery unravels in a bungalow that they have found.

While trying to locate a missing dancer who is about to gain a large inheritance, Nancy Drew finds a clue leading to the solution of a mystery.

Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.

Runaway Eve, having agreed to impersonate a girl named Aurora who disappeared three years earlier in order to help her cousins gain her inheritance, is haunted by the ghost of Aurora's best friend, who died on the night she went missing, and races against time to find out what really happened to Aurora and stop a killer from claiming her as a victim.

An unexpected legacy from the father who deserted her as a baby starts Jenny on a dangerous search for answers to questions concerning her father, his death, and her own future.

"Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir"--OCLC.

Nikki Peters quits her secure bank job to take a risky position investigating Colin, the black sheep of the very wealthy Dempsey family, but her bid for money and adventure comes very close to backfiring.

Nikki Peters quits her secure bank job to take a risky position investigating Colin, the black sheep of the very wealthy Dempsey family, but her bid for money and adventure comes very close to backfiring.

Detective Bob Pasquale is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of wealthy Anson Ledyard who is presumed dead after his Lexus was found in a swamp, but he finds himself instead falling in love with the beautiful young widow.

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

"Mr. Summerling, Marly's neighbor, talked about being a treasure hunter, and news of his death has brought Marly into a treasure hunt of her own.

"Marly, Sai, and Isla are back on the hunt. After finding Mr. Summerling's hidden tree house, they've discovered a new set of clues for them to follow, leading them straight to the heart of their mysterious neighbor's life: his house.