The Summons

An official summons indicating the time and place of the hearing...
What could be unusual about that for Ray Atlee, a professional lawyer well known in the American South? Only this — that in such a strange way his father summons him and his brother home: a legendary judge, formerly one of the most influential officials in the state of Mississippi. A whim of a lonely old man who has gone senile?
That is what Ray thinks at first. However, when his father dies under mysterious circumstances and it turns out that THREE MILLION dollars are hidden in the house, he begins to seriously ponder the mystery of the strange summons…