My Brother's Keeper

Under tons of rubbish, rat-infested and filthy, the police found the bodies of two enormously wealthy old men. Once they had been happy and talented men about town. Why did these two, who had everything, live out their lives as hermits in a nightmare of gruesome squalor? The answer lay hidden in the monstrous house -- in diaries, sealed boxes, and trunks filled with the rotting splendor of a woman's clothes. For two women had twisted the lives of Seymour and Randall Holt beyond all human understanding. The first did it by devilish design. The second because she was the sort of woman who loved too often and too well.