The Seventh Key

by Lewis Jones

The Seventh Key is a five-part suspense short story. In order to test the intelligence and perseverance of his two nephews, Nicholas and Alan, the old Uncle Edward gave them a key separately in care of his lawyer before his death, and told them that the one who can get seven keys within one week will receive his inheritance. Alan and his girl friend persist in search the keys with pain-staking efforts and cleverness and found the seventh key in the end, Alan got the inheritance and married his girl friend happily. While Nicholas and his wife do not like to work hard for that and tried to use trick to find the keys, they got nothing as a result.

Paperback

Published March 11, 1974

About the author

Born in Clydach Vale in 1897, Lewis Jones began work underground at the age of twelve. He worked for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, was elected a County Councillor in 1936, and died in 1939 after a day of speaking at numerous public meetings in support of the Spanish Civil War.

Stephen Knight described Jones' work as novelist thus: "Lewis Jones produced two novels that remain classics of international industrial fiction and testify to the oppressed but resistant and creative character of industrial South Wales."