Rich Aunt Minna's Palm Beach Murders
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If you think rich people live fascinating lives, wait until you see how they solve a murder (or two).As Hurricane Charlie whirls across the Sunshine State, uprooting palm trees and turning homes into aquariums, the residents of Ibis Island appear to have been spared by Mother Nature. Human nature, however, has taken its toll. Finagler/adulterer Archie Moore is found dead, his million-dollar Clarion statuette gone missing. Meanwhile, in Riviera Beach, 19-year-old Derrick Mason is gunned down in a street shooting.Three months later, the police seem content to let Derrick’smurder add to an already mountainous stack of unsolved felonies, while on Ibis Island, lazy police chief Carlton Hullton pins Archie Moore’sdeath on illegal immigrant looters despite a complete lack of evidence. These circumstances, while mocking Florida’salready mockable criminal justice system, are perfect for what Minna Fordham Parkworth has in mind.Minna, 71, lives in Palm Beach, where she is frequently mistaken for Lauren Hutton. She’sbeen married six times and each of her five husbands (she married one twice, oops) left her richer than the last. Minna’smany many millions are held in a trust administered by her nephew (second cousin actually), David Sinclair Fordham, a DC lawyer, who Minna calls Sinky.One cold winter day, Sinky gets a call from Minna’sbest friend, Adele Warren, an