Undue Influence - Softcover

Yastrow, Shelby

3.53

38 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804109052 ISBN 13: 9780804109055

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1991

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When a devout Roman Catholic accountant at his firm dies leaving his eight-million-dollar estate to a local synagogue, Chicago attorney Philip Ogden must investigate shocking accusations and secrets involving the dead man's past

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About the Author:

He is the retired General Counsel, Executive Vice-President and Secretary of McDonald's Corporation. He now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with hie wife, Sybil, and two dogs. His main hobbies are golf, fishing, and writing goofy poems.

From Publishers Weekly:

Attorney Yastrow's slow-starting first novel takes place in Chicago's law offices, a quack cancer clinic and a judge's chambers. But just when readers may be ready to give up, the author's detailed knowledge of the legal system, his feisty villains, believable heroes and intriguingly original plot all take hold, creating a first-rate suspense story that is hard to put down. The centerpiece of the tale is Benjamin Stillman, low-paid bookkeeper at a brokerage firm, who dies at 83. Stillman leaves $8 million to a synagogue he had never attended; in fact, he was a Catholic. Philip Ogden is the small-time lawyer who unexpectedly becomes the protector of the will. Ogden's challenges include determining whether any heirs exist, deciding why someone would leave all his wealth to an institution representing a religion he himself didn't espouse, and learning where all the assets came from. Was Stillman a humanitarian thief? In any case, this is an engaging picture of the legal profession portrayed as corrupt, egotistical and morally complex.
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