Living up to her remarkable talent for combining murder with big business, Miss Lathen this time leads us skillfully behind the scenes of a million-dollar chain of "take-out" restaurants called Chicken Tonight-suspected of being the source of an epid...
ePub version. A fierce competition between a Houston and German company to build out a huge North Sea project. The usual wit, intelligence, and Emma Lathen cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher figures it all out by following the money. Great fun....
John Putnam, a detective-minded bank executive, suspects a conspiracy when the favored ski jumper at the Winter Olympics is shot during a trial run and an unusual amount of counterfeit traveler's checks turns up at Sloan Guaranty...
The elegant, silver-haired banker-detective who charmed readers in Banking on Death returns in a mystery involving miscalculations and murder at the National Calculating Company, where an accountant is found strangled with his adding machine cord. Re...