Returning east for the reading of his first wife’s Will, a desperate man – drunk and down to his last penny – is pushed over the edge when he learns that another man is the sole beneficiary. How far will he go to get what he believes he’s due? And afterwards, will he be able to escape the long arm of the law? Set in 1951 and written in the style of noir master Jim Thompson, POLICE AT THE FUNERAL is the third volume of Ariel S. Winter’s extraordinary debut novel, THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH.