Strange Inheritance

By: Martin Lake

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

STRANGE INHERITANCE

Sam Taylor and Matthew Wain are fifty years old when they discover their father has died and left them a considerable fortune. This is a pleasant surprise but it is not the only one. Both Sam and Matthew were brought up by different mothers - one in the USA and the other in the UK. And until now, they had no idea that they had a sibling.

They go to Stratford-upon-Avon to look at the apartment they have jointly inherited. They have no intention of remaining for long, perhaps no intention of even keeping it. Yet the apartment, part of an ancient country house, casts a spell over them and they decide to stay.

They soon discover that the residents are somewhat unusual. The house is owned by Carolyn Masters, elderly movie star and baroness, who runs the house with the aid of her major-domo, Kirk. Their nearest neighbours are the inquisitive, hard up and happy go lucky Valerie Pencil, Major Charles Fawcett (Retired) who is haunted by Evelyn Birch, friend of no one, enemy to all, Luke Skywalker Dunn and Princess Leia Sharper, a young couple obsessed by aliens, George Addison a gardener who was once roadie to the Beatles and lecturer at the Slade, two sisters, one a psychic, the other a dominatrix and the mysterious Bill Dangerfield.

And then, of course, there was the fact that their apartment was once lived in by a murderer.