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Smallbone Deceased

by Michael Francis Gilbert

The new lawyer Henry Bohun had joined the firm to work on insurance cases, not murders, but... *"At eleven o'clock this morning a partner in this firm of solicitors — what's their name? — Horniman, Birley and Craine, opened one of their deed boxes. The box was supposed to contain papers relating to a trust. What they found was one of the trustees. Name of Smallbone — Marcus Smallbone — very dead."*

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?