"The Cavendish Code"

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Seventy-two-year-old mathematics professor Joseph Beloit has spent sixty years fuming over a carnival ring stolen by his childhood rival, Red Cavendish. When Red—now a deceased billionaire candy magnate—invites Joseph to his estate for the reading of his will, Joseph expects closure. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an elaborate inheritance game alongside Red's son and young widow, racing to crack a 12-digit code hidden throughout Red's monument to excess. The prize? Billions. But all Joseph wants is his worthless ring back—even if retrieving it means robbing a high-tech mausoleum guarded by Red's unsettling holographic ghost. As Joseph navigates secret underground tunnels, suspicious lawyers, and a mansion where every portrait holds a clue, he discovers that Red's obsession with that stolen ring ran just as deep as his own. With the help of Claire—a brilliant art historian who smuggles phones inside cakes and appreciates a man who refuses to use apps—Joseph must solve the puzzle of a lifetime. But the real mystery isn't the code. It's whether some competitions are more valuable than their prizes, and if sixty years of hatred might have been something else entirely.