Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

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06/29/23

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Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.

Genre: mystery

When ambitious young New York lawyer Frank Etheridge is abruptly summoned to Flatbush to draft the last will of the dying Cynthia Wakeham, he expects an unpleasant errand and a quick fee. Instead, he finds a once-grand house stripped to the bone, a terrified woman clinging to her final choices, and a hungry relative, Hiram Huckins, hovering for an inheritance. Cynthia's papers point to a missing sister, Harriet Smith, and to a troubling condition tied to the estate: whoever claims the money must take up residence in Cynthia's desolate home and remain there for a full year. Following the trail into the quiet village of Marston, Frank crosses paths with Dr. Edgar Sellick and the town's most baffling enigma: the Cavanagh sisters, Emma and Hermione, who have lived like prisoners behind their own gate since a long-ago rupture with the outside world. Hermione's scar, the sisters' secrecy, and rumors of a locked laboratory turn a legal search for heirs into something far more dangerous. As new visitors arrive and old grudges surface, Frank must untangle love, greed, and buried crimes before Cynthia Wakeham's money destroys the very people it was meant to save.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:38) Chapter 02

(00:41:00) Chapter 03

(00:55:08) Chapter 04

(01:09:28) Chapter 05

(01:25:05) Chapter 06

(01:48:42) Chapter 07

(02:01:57) Chapter 08

(02:21:27) Chapter 09

(02:28:54) Chapter 10

(02:46:45) Chapter 11

(03:07:36) Chapter 12

(03:39:15) Chapter 13

(03:51:28) Chapter 14

(04:04:29) Chapter 15

(04:21:57) Chapter 16

(04:40:04) Chapter 17

(04:59:37) Chapter 18

(05:16:57) Chapter 19

(05:28:00) Chapter 20

(05:59:21) Chapter 21

(06:10:39) Chapter 22

(06:26:33) Chapter 23

(06:45:08) Chapter 24

(07:03:20) Chapter 25

(07:14:13) Chapter 26

(07:25:49) Chapter 27

(07:47:57) Chapter 28

(07:58:02) Chapter 29

(08:11:19) Chapter 30

(08:30:18) Chapter 31

(08:38:59) Chapter 32

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