My Best Friend's Father
If the mafia was involved, maybe they started the fire, but why would they kill her parents and leave French alive?
“Could they have started the fire?” I ask him as I watch her climb back up and wave before turning away.
“My contacts think it’s unlikely, but anything is possible. Theodore paid off his debt a couple of weeks after the funeral from his brother’s estate.”
“Was the estate worth five million? I thought he was a lawyer?”
“He was, but his father was Hubert Marshall.”
“The oil tycoon?”
“That’s the one. Hubert left behind nearly half a billion. Two hundred million of it went to charity, and the rest to the eldest son, Sly.”