Greed's Fatal Tail

In the fictional Commonwealth of Westbrook, a young heir is betrayed by kin who covet his fortune. Declared insane through forged evidence, he is confined to the grim St. Dymphna's Psychiatric Institute, where electroshock and drugs become daily weapons to silence him. His sole hope lies with a disillusioned staff physician who begins to suspect the conspiracy. As the doctor digs deeper, the investigation uncovers a trail of bribes, falsified reports, and institutional indifference echoing the custodial abuses of a notorious jail death. The novel fuses Josephine Tey’s meticulous psychological suspense with a chilling dissection of how greed—a vestigial tail of evolution—poisons every bond, ultimately coiling back to destroy the greedy themselves.