The Talleyrand Maxim

The Talleyrand Maxim follows ambitious clerk Linford Pratt, whose ordinary life changes when an antiquarian bookseller discovers the hidden will of a recently deceased magnate before dying unexpectedly. Left alone with the secret, Pratt must choose between honesty and personal gain. As greed, deception, and hidden motives collide, Joseph Smith Fletcher crafts a gripping mystery of inheritance, ambition, and moral consequence.