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Emma Lathen
Full Series List in Order
A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery
1 - Banking on Death (1961)2 - A Place for Murder (1963)
3 - Accounting for Murder (1964)
4 - Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round (1966)
5 - Death Shall Overcome (1966)
6 - Murder Against the Grain (1967)
7 - A Stitch in Time (1968)
8 - Come to Dust (1968)
9 - When in Greece (1969)
10 - Murder to Go (1969)
11 - Pick Up Sticks (1970)
12 - Ashes to Ashes (1971)
13 - The Longer the Thread (1971)
14 - Murder Without Icing (1972)
15 - Sweet and Low (1974)
16 - By Hook or by Crook (1975)
17 - Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (1978)
18 - Going for the Gold (Jan-1981)
19 - Green Grow the Dollars (Mar-1982)
20 - Something in the Air (Sep-1988)
21 - East Is East (Nov-1991)
22 - Right on the Money (Apr-1993)
23 - Brewing Up a Storm (Nov-1996)
24 - A Shark Out of Water (Nov-1997)
Book List in Order: 26 titles
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Banking on Death
- 1961
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When John Putnam Thatcher suspects a young co-worker is out of his league when called upon to locate a missing heir, the urbane banker decides to show the youngster the ropes. But at the end of this line is a knotty problem--the newly located and now...
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A Place for Murder
- 1963
- / Amateur Sleuth
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2nd 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...
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Accounting for Murder
- 1964
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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 ... -
Death Shall Overcome
- 1966
- / Amateur Sleuth
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ePub version. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant li...
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Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round
- 1966
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Michigan Motors' top executives were expected to live for their jobs -- but one was murdered for his! John Putnam Thatcher was in Detroit to investigate the firm's investment potential. Instead, he was quickly embroiled in the shooting death of an MM...
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Murder Against the Grain
- 1967
- / Amateur Sleuth
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ePub version. $985,000 has been stolen from the Sloan in a letter of credit situation with forged documents; John Putnam Thatcher gets involved to save the Sloan the money and finds the murders in the process. Great fun with the Soviets, Americans, a...
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Come to Dust
- 1968
- / Amateur Sleuth
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For years now, Emma Lathen has been writing her crisp & entertaining mysteries centering around John Putnam Thatcher, the formidable vice-president of Sloan Guaranty Trust. Miss Lathen is something of a financial wizard herself, & her talent for maki...
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A Stitch in Time
- 1968
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The perplexing question that popped up in the case of Pemberton Freebody was, why would somebody check in to a hospital to commit suicide? But the Long Island hospital surgeon testified that Freebody died of a self-inflicted wound. The insurance co...
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Murder to Go
- 1969
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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 e...
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When in Greece
- 1969
- / Amateur Sleuth
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“The American Agatha Christie” & “Nero Wolfe with Portfolio” according to the New York Times sets this mystery in Greece with John Thatcher unraveling the mystery, with the usual cast of characters and great humor....
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Pick Up Sticks
- 1970
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When Wall Street's John Putnam Thatcher and his Down East crony, Henry Morland, started 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 t...
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Ashes to Ashes
- 1971
- / Amateur Sleuth
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MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD...OR OF THE SLOAN GUARANTY TRUST? The St. Bernadette's Parents League was formed to save the old, bankrupt parochial school from being replaced by a twenty-story apartment house. The irate protesters had sentiment and Franc...
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The Longer the Thread
- 1971
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Corpses certainly are bad for business... as John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, found out when he investigated the affairs of Slax Unlimited. Slax, a garment-manufacturing firm, had recently opened a Sloan-backe...
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Murder Without Icing
- 1972
- / Amateur Sleuth
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ePub version. Professional Sports, NHL Hockey. Emma Lathen's witty insightful tale about how money underpins professional sports with charming characters such as the TV Symphony announcer who becomes an instant hit as a play by play hockey analyst, t...
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Sweet and Low
- 1974
- / Amateur Sleuth
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ePub version. Non profit trust controls the for profit Dreyer Chocolate bar company with conflicts in purpose, with non profit trustee clashing with for profit executives. Excitement, humor, Lathen ever present wit, with the usual charming group of S...
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By Hook or by Crook
- 1975
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A rivalry sealed in blood triggers a subtle and deadly revenge plot that links a powerful business and a vast estate to a double murder... John Putnam Thatcher is faced with two murders -- the result of a bitter family feud. John Putnam Thatcher kno...
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Double, Double, Oil and Trouble
- 1978
- / Amateur Sleuth
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John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective, finds himself stepping lively a half-stride ahead of disaster when a kidnapping in Istanbul, a ransom in Switzerland and a murder in Texas ignite a flash fire fueled by international oil....
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Going for the Gold
- Jan-1981
- / Amateur Sleuth
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From staid Wall Street to the dazzle of the Olympic trials, there's nothing a banker doesn't get involved in -- including midair murder. Lake Placid becomes anything but for John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective for Sloan Guaranty Trust, when a Fren...
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Green Grow the Dollars
- Mar-1982
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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....
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Something in the Air
- Sep-1988
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Wall Street banker/detective John Putnam Thatcher encounters intrigue along with a loan request from Sparrow Flyways, an airline whose expansion plans are not to be deterred, even by opposition from its shareholders....
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East Is East
- Nov-1991
- / Amateur Sleuth
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WHEN MURDER IS ON THE AGENDA Heavyweight banker and amateur sleuth John Putnam Thatcher arrives in Tokyo prepared for the usual rounds of power meetings and golf games. Then, Carl Kruger, the darling of Wall Street, stuns the business world with t...
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Right on the Money
- Apr-1993
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A GOLDEN CORPORATE MERGER...OR A PARTNERSHIP IN CRIME? To John Putnam Thatcher Sloan Guaranty Trust's intrepid VP, the merger looks from the outset to be a golden opportunity. ASI, a large water-fixture company is prepared to enter the lucrative r...
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Brewing Up a Storm
- Nov-1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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DRUNK WITH POWER When a nineteen-year-old boy dies in a drunk driving accident, Madeline Underwood decides to convince the world that Kischel Brewery's "soft drink" leads young people to try the harder stuff. But Underwood faces formidable enemies...
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A Shark Out of Water
- Nov-1997
- / Amateur Sleuth
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THE DEAL WAS MURDER A megabucks investment opportunity draws financier/sleuth John Putnam Thatcher to the decaying Polish port of Gdansk, where a killing can be made if the busy canal there is rebuilt--long a dream of maverick Baltic business offi...
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Political Murder
- May-2016
- / Mystery
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“The American Agatha Christie” & “Nero Wolfe with Portfolio” according to the New York Times, set in Washington DC in the middle of politics in the Senate, corporate fleeing to Ireland and off shore to escape US high corporate tax rates, and ...
