The collapse of the house was unrelated to Tony’s death. When Tony confronted Hugo about the embezzlement, Hugo hit him in the head, killing him. Hugo had been masquerading as his brother, leading investors to believe that Tony was in charge of their accounts when it was really Hugo. Tony’s search led him to his brother, Hugo, also a wealth investor. When they were finally able to get access to the information on Tony’s laptop and track his searches, they discovered that Tony had been trying to figure out who was creating the fake statements and where the money was going. The statements led them to believe Tony, a wealth investor, was stealing from some of clients. When Beauvoir and his investigators started digging through Tony’s office, they discovered fake financial statements. When Anthony “Tony” Baumgartner’s body was found in the remains of his mother’s house, it was first believed he was killed because of his mother’s will. Meanwhile, Gamache followed Amelia, a cadet dismissed from the Sûreté Academy, hoping she would lead him to the stock of drugs that made its way onto the streets after a drug raid he led. What started out as a laughable situation turned deadly serious when the oldest of Bertha’s children was discovered dead in the ruins of Bertha’s former home after the structure collapsed. Gamache was named as an executor in the will of Bertha Baumgartner, a will in which she left money and a title she did not have to her children. In the novel The Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, the fourteenth installment in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, a baffling will, a dead benefactor, and a missing stock of deadly drugs keep Armand Gamache busy despite his suspension from the Sûreté. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Penny, Louise.

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