The main character inherited only a pocket-watch shaped like an onion. You know those little watches that are carried in a vest pocket on a chain. A stylish thing. And expensive. Golden. Very cute, of course — but where is the great fortune of his uncle?!
However, that meager inheritance — the watch — turns out not to be merely expensive, but priceless, because the device disguised inside it can stop time!
Other “heirs” are also eyeing this “inheritance.” Even if they don’t have any legal rights to it, they do have pistols and a readiness to break the law.
And the mess that (as it turns out) the uncle has set in motion will have to be sorted out by the main character… and it seems the uncle planned it exactly that way!