A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind
of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and
the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until
only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who
will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and
poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and
bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone
has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother
died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when
a pound was a pound) will be theirs.
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