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The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Brewing Up a Storm: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 23rd of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A brewery introduces a non-alcoholic beer that stirs up trouble with a lobbying group that believe this will lead children to drink beer as minors. Congressional hearings, congressmen, lobbyists, a lawsuit, a riot, and more create wonderful goings-on for listeners with John Putnam Thatcher identifying the murderer.

Right on the Money: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 22nd of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. It's a merger-and-acquisition mystery when an Assistant Division Manager of the acquiring company wants the Division Manager job of the acquired company, but has the wrong skill set. The fun starts there and John Putnam Thatcher solves it.

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.

Murder Without Icing: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 14th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. Professional sports. NHL hockey. Emma Lathen's witty, insightful tale about how money underpins professional sports is full of charming characters such as the TV symphony announcer who becomes an instant hit as a play-by-play hockey analyst, the scion of a legendary rich family who has an interest in a team, and more.

The Longer the Thread: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 13th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. An American company has trouble in its Puerto Rican plant when a foreman is murdered and only management could have done it. Thatcher figures it out, rescues the $3 million loan for the Sloan, and helps everyone recover.

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.

Something in the Air: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 20th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A discount airline is considering going from a profitable commuter line to a major coast-to-coast airline, taking on the big guys. An internal fight breaks out, and the Sloan is involved through a loan and stock in a trust it manages, so John Putnam must get involved with his henchmen Gabler and Trinkham. This is great fun and deals with many pieties, making it a must-listen.

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.

This is the second of 37 best-selling Emma Lathen mysteries featuring SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, John Putnam Thatcher, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through divorce, carryings-on, dog shows, and more to examine the financial motives and nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries. Called the "American Agatha Christie" and "Nero Wolfe with Portfolio" by The New York Times.

This is the first of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The Sloan receives a request for an advance against a trust that does not permit it. John Putnam Thatcher gets involved by one heir, Arthur Schneider, President of Schneider Manufacturing, and grandson of the founder who left a trust for his grandchildren upon the death of all of their parents. The last parent is about to die from natural causes. One heir is missing and Thatcher, Trinkam, and Nicholls, all Emma Lathen regulars, work to find the missing heir. Soon they learn a murder is involved....

Come to Dust: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This the eighth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. This time involves fundraising for the old Ivy league college, Dartmouth in fact, with various goings-on related to missing checks, possible embezzlement, and more. It's windy twisty road to the solution made by John Putnam Thatcher. Good fun, witty, and informative.