Overview
Albert Crook died in February 2008, aged 69. He never married, had no children and had worked nearly all his life as a farm labourer in Cheshire. By all rights, his estate should be a small one, but Fraser and Fraser soon hears rumours of 100,000 pounds in assets and a mysterious suitcase full of cash. With such a prize on offer, the pressure is on to find Albert's rightful heirs and discover just how a lowly paid labourer could amass that kind of wealth. Hoopers has to unravel the perplexing case of who owns a Victorian school site worth 800,000 pounds. With the school planning to move out, the site should revert to the heirs of the original benefactors - Victorian philanthropists, Reverend Charles Belli and Octavius Coope. But finding the heirs means delving back through a 100-year-long trail of wills, and even seeking a High Court ruling. If things don't go well, the heirs won't receive a penny and the school's plan to move into a new home will be in tatters.