Murder to Go — Emma Lathen

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 epidemic of food poisoning on the East Coast. John Putnam Thatcher is dispatched to the scenes of CT's offending test kitchens, franchise shambles and front-office despair. The discovery of a strangled corpse leads to a swelling number of suspects.