The Ninety Million Dollar Mouse

Milo Turner, the tall and (by his own account) handsome scam artist whose adventures have entertained readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades, takes on a religious cult in his second book-length romp. At stake is a cool billion or so if he can prove that a high-tech mogul's handwritten will is a forgery. All Milo has to do is walk into the lion's den--the home town of the cult--and snatch a cache of love letters the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough. It's...
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Milo Turner, the tall and (by his own account) handsome scam artist whose adventures have entertained readers of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades, takes on a religious cult in his second book-length romp. At stake is a cool billion or so if he can prove that a high-tech mogul's handwritten will is a forgery. All Milo has to do is walk into the lion's den--the home town of the cult--and snatch a cache of love letters the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough. It's not as though anyone would try to kill him. . . . This new edition includes an Afterword by the author, two-time Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins, along with a reprinting of the early short story upon which the novel was based. Publishers Weekly greeted Milo Turner's first adventure, The 120 Hour Clock (Perfect Crime), as "fun through the last wry word."