This is a “Did He Do It?” Book, David Chandler's The Binghams of Louisville.
Did Robert Worth Bingham drug his wife, Mary Lily Keenan Flagler, to get her to sign a last-ditch codicil to her will—38 days before her July 27, 1917 death—leaving him with $5 million (a staggering sum in 1917)? Mary Lily, the widow of Henry Flagler, inherited his vast fortune when he died in 1913, making her one of the richest women in America.
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