From Publishers Weekly
In What Now, King Lear?: A Gil Yates Private Investigator Novel, the sixth installment by Alistair Boyle (Ship Shapely), Yates sleuths and wisecracks his way through a privileged world of breathtaking inheritances, intra-family lawsuits, people who "marry rich" and a murdered patriarch.
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From Booklist
Gil Yates (the alias of the nerdy, unsuccessful real estate agent Malvin Stark) has another mystery to solve, this time at the behest of Pamela, Orville Sampson's lovely widow and stepmother to Orville's three grown daughters. Pamela has made a career out of marrying well, but she insists that she loved her husband and blames her daughters' greedy husbands for her beloved's death. But death does not cause any wealth to pass to Orville's heirs, for he added a provision that should he be murdered, the case must be solved before the estate is divided. Boyle's clever storytelling and deft writing are a treat once again in this sixth installment of the Yates series. When you're not trying to solve the mystery, you're laughing out loud at the foibles of a man who calls his wife Tyranny Rex ("or Tyranny Wrecks, if you aren't too careful about spelling") and his father-in-law-cum-boss Daddypimple or Daddydandruff. For lighthearted, witty whodunits, it doesn't get much better than this.
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