THE INHERITANCE by Simon Tolkien — Simon Tolkien’s THE INHERITANCE, in which an aging police inspector decides to travel from England to France to delve into a possible World War II theft and crime hoping to save an upper-class student set to hang for murdering his father, an Oxford historian with a questionable military record, to Peter Wolverton and Thomas Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Agency in a two book good deal. (NA)