Mar 4
DEAD MAN’S GIFT by Zelda Poplin. (New York: Dell mapback #190, [1941])
DEAD MAN’S GIFT by Zelda Popkin. (Lippincott, 1941)
Dead Man's Gift is a 1941 mystery novel by Zelda Popkin, featuring detective Mary Carner, where a group of estranged heirs is trapped in a mansion by a flood while waiting to hear the reading of a will, leading to a series of murders. The plot involves a "terrible will" that divides an inheritance among relatives who barely know each other, creating a tense, "locked-room" scenario with a colorful cast and a rising threat of murder
