Dead Men'S Money

Hugh Moneylaws is the protagonist of the 1920 novel "Dead Men's Money," which is set in Berwick on Tweed. Hugh is a not very intelligent man. His mother, who is widowed, manages a tiny boarding home to help the family make ends meet. He accepts to conduct a strange errand for one of the lodgers who are ostensibly too unwell to go out since he is keen to get some additional money.
Hugh discovers a d...