• A light-hearted survey of the final requests and bequests found in wills over the last century
• True stories of how estate law turned bizarre and final requests got out of control
• Author is an experienced author of ten books on true crime, business sagas, and history, whose writing regularly appears in Canada's History magazine
• Library Journal praised her previous book "Goldenberg's style titillates with the skill of a good gossip columnist, armed with the tools of both a criminalist and a historian"

Susan Goldenberg is the author of ten books and has won both a Canadian Author's Award and a Canadian Business Press Editors' Award. She has written for Canadian and American newspapers and currently pens articles for Canada's History magazine. She lives in Toronto.