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Twenty-first of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. Features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. International, robotics, and finance, with John Putnam Thatcher going to Japan, Alaska, and elsewhere on Sloan business and solving an international murder involving Japanese, Koreans, and Americans.

A rollicking good tale about oil power from Saudi Arabia to Houston, funding from Zurich to Wall Street, kidnapping and murder, and more with John Putnam Thatcher solving the mystery by penetrating the personal and corporate misdirections to identify the money motives, fraud, and murderer.

A tale of two Armenian brothers who come to America before World War II and scrimp to buy and sell a shipment of oriental rugs. One brother dies and the other takes the company all the way up to a world leader in the category in both wholesaling and retailing. Involves family goings-on, murder, trusts, and more. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to get to the practical money reasons for murder.

This is the third of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings-on. He's a famous accountant who swoops down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries.

Emma Lathen's fourth John Putnam Thatcher mystery centering on fraud, murder, and forensic accounting. An ironic and insightful mystery with great charm by the "American Agatha Christie" and "Nero Wolfe with Portfolio", according to New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times reviewers.

A favorite about the annual Vandam gardening catalog that brightened up the winter so avid gardeners could dream about spring plantings. A contest for a great tomato, Numero Uno, between Standard Foods/Vandam's and little Seedmen's, worth millions. Witty, urbane, fun, and ironic in Emma Lathen's style, with the usual cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher discovers who the murderer is, with written certified documentation, by thinking like a banker. A treat for mystery fans.

The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is the backdrop of this tale about embezzlement and fraud, gold medals, disco, parting, marriage, and romance, with Brad Withers providing one his classic turns, Everett Gabler being Everett, and skiing and murder that John Putnam Thatcher solves by following the money trail.

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

Emma Lathen is called the American Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe Without Portfolio by New York Times and Wall Street Journal reviewers. Set in the land of the old rich in Northern Connecticut juxtaposed with working people is this witty and insightful conflict between the two groups. Book number two in her John Putnam Thatcher series.

A rollicking good insightful John Putnam Mystery with the redoubtable Lucy Lancer and Miss Corsa at their wittiest finest. A Dartmouth Admission interview goes wrong leading to a lost $50,000 bond, a wild reunion weekend, murder, and more.

A mystery centered on a family manufacturing business in New England squeezed by lower cost, potentially from a competitor, and the goings-on around it among family members, which leads to murder. Wall-Street banker John Putnam Thatcher solves it through an adroit combination of common sense, knowing people, and, above all, knowing what money will drive people to do, including murder.

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, nonprofits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive.

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been international and the Sloan’s inside garment expert and finds murder - including a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking, witty, insightful fun.

The Sloan Wall Street bank gets caught up in their mortgage commitment to a new apartment building in a closely tied community that opposes it because it displaces a long-important local parochial school. Emotions run high, but John Putnam Thatcher cuts through them to solve the murder for financial purposes.

A tale of nature lovers confronting second-home developers; hard-sell tactics delivering results; first and second wives battles; murders; and more. The sloan is disrupted by John Putnam Thatcher taking his annual vacation: a long walk on the Appalachian trail with his mail-order zealot friend. They run into murder, which Thatcher ultimately solves from his Wall Street perspective.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

A letter of credit fraud gets John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan involved in identifying and capturing the Russian and American involved. Gabler, Trinkam, Bowman, Nichols, Miss Corsa, George Lancer, and Brad Withers all become involved.

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

Pick Up Sticks: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 11th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. When Thatcher and his friend Henry Morland set off hiking the Appalachian Trail, they hardly expected to stumble over a dead body. Nor did real-estate promoters Eddie Quinlan and Ralph Valenti plan to play hosts to a murderer at their luxurious new development in New England.