The Dead Man’s Share

By Arthur C. Bane

When Leah Sutter arrives at Marlowe Quinn's apartment carrying six anonymous gold coins, she brings with her a mystery that has been waiting fourteen years to be solved. Each coin arrived on her missing father's birthday. Each bears the same unfamiliar mark. And now, for the first time, the sender has asked her to come and learn the truth.

Marlowe is brilliant, abrasive, unpredictable, and far too interested in problems that refuse easy answers. His younger cousin Eamon, a former boxer whose career ended after a neurological condition left his right hand trembling, has recently fallen into journalism and into Marlowe's orbit. What begins as a chance to follow an unusual lead soon becomes their first real investigation together.

The deeper they look, the more the case opens into a buried history involving documentary filmmakers, old criminal networks, hidden loyalties, and a fortune that should never have survived. Every clue seems to answer one question while raising another, and the people closest to the truth have spent years making sure it stayed hidden.

The Dead Man's Share is a contemporary detective mystery built around sharp observation, plausible deduction, morally complicated characters, and a trail of secrets that reaches far beyond one missing man.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGMJXQLL
• ISBN13: 9798170009350
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"