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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

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wrs ◴[] No.43754826[source]
The endgame of a tontine can naturally result in confusion, intrigue, and/or murder. This was a basis of the plots of several novels, most famously R.L. Stevenson’s The Wrong Box.
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1. rundmc ◴[] No.43755112[source]
Great entertainment although the Simpsons did the best fictional Tontine IMHO:https://tontine.com/videos/simpsons/

That said, each Last Will & Testament creates the same scenario and (unlike in a Tontine) you typically know who you are in the Will alongside but this still doesn't seem to result in a spate of murder cases either.

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2. wrs ◴[] No.43766098[source]
I dunno, there are plenty of good old British mysteries where the detective's first question is "what does the will say?"