02385cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000460011324500210015926400510018030000470023133600260027833700260030433800360033049000500036650000310041650801230044752012430057053400450181365300200185865300270187870000200190583000500192585600430197599900170201831892UtSlPG20260610133728.0mcr n260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aGold, H. L.q(Horace Leonard),d1914-199614aThe Old Die Rich 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2010  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the March 1953 issue of Galaxy.  aRelease date is 2010-04-05  aProduced by Sankar Viswanathan, Robert Cicconetti, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"The Old Die Rich" by H. L. Gold is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around Mark Weldon, an actor who becomes obsessed with understanding why elderly individuals with substantial savings choose to starve to death rather than spend their money. Through a series of investigations, Weldon uncovers a connection to a mysterious woman, May Roberts, who operates a time-traveling scheme that preys on the elderly, leading them to tragic ends.  The opening of the story introduces Mark Weldon, who is visiting a scene of death with a medical examiner. He learns about an elderly woman who has died of starvation despite having thousands of dollars in the bank. Intrigued and disturbed by the circumstances surrounding such cases, he begins to delve deeper into the psyche of these old people. His search leads him to the enigmatic May Roberts, who uses a time machine for her own profitable motives, offering Weldon a chance at wealth but at a potentially deadly cost. As he grapples with moral questions and dangers related to time travel, the narrative sets up a gripping exploration of desperation, greed, and the lengths to which people will go to survive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction  aTime travel -- Fiction1 aAshman, William 0aProduced from the March 1953 issue of Galaxy.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31892  c72738d72738