Renji Takahara

Sir Alistair Locke, terminally ill and obsessed with poisons, decides to read his new will that very evening, immediately after a bizarre séance arranged by his wife. Beneath the family’s polished manners lie debts, blackmail, forbidden affairs, and decades of carefully concealed secrets.

When Sir Alistair dies before everyone’s eyes, clearly poisoned, it appears to be a planned suicide. But one person in the room knows the truth: this was not a death on his own terms.

Trapped in an old Victorian manor, with the police on their way and a storm cutting off every escape, both family members and servants become suspects. Everyone had a motive. Everyone had an opportunity. And someone had the knowledge.

The Will That Killed Him is a classic closed-house mystery, filled with poison, lies, wills, and quiet observers who see more than they say.