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The Date Beneath the Watermark: A Loughhaven Inheritance Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries, Book 7
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A will dated 1927 is written on paper manufactured nine years later.
When a copy of shipping agent William Calder's missing will is discovered in a solicitor's cellar, probate genealogist Anna Harland is asked to determine whether it preserves a genuine final testament or an elaborate family forgery.
The visible document is dated 4 February 1927. Its watermark reads BANNISTER FINE - 1936. Beneath the maker's year, a second impression records only two initials and another date: E.C. - 14.2.27.
The disputed will leaves Harbour Rise to the child whose name is beneath the maker's date. The old house has since become three separate homes, and each modern owner possesses a different part of the missing proof: a photograph of William signing, a witness's private diary and the paper mould used at Bannister Mill.
As Anna and records expert Maya Singh join the separated evidence, they uncover an acknowledged daughter, a solicitor's retreat, a later copy that never pretended to be original and a compassionate agreement designed to correct inheritance without making innocent families homeless.
The Date Beneath the Watermark is a clean British inheritance mystery about lost wills, honest copies, hidden identity and the difference between delay and surrender. It is Book Seven of The Loughhaven Inheritance Mysteries and resolves its central case completely.
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