検索キーワード： 著者 "Emma Lathen" すべてのカテゴリー

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. Thatcher gets involved to try to recover a loan/debenture done by the Sloan's incompetent investment manager on the way out.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. In this case it relates to a trust fund with an heir missing and then killed.

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 sixth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. $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 murders in the process. Great fun with the Soviets, Americans, and others acting up.

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....

Sweet and Low: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 15th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A nonprofit trust controls the for-profit Dreyer Chocolate Bar company with conflicts in purpose, with a nonprofit trustee clashing with for-profit executives. You'll find excitement, humor, and Lathen's ever-present wit with the usual charming group of Sloan people, as John Putnam Thatcher again solves the mystery.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. 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 light touch of Emma Lathen.

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.

By Hook or by Crook: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 16th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. The Parajian family owns the largest oriental rug company in the US. They are having a generational battle for stock control of the company. John Putnam Thatcher solves two murders by following the money, not the emotions.

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.

Murder to Go: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the tenth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. The hottest fast-food franchise is acquiring a staid insurance company and murder intercedes. John Putnam Thatcher steps in to save the Sloan's $12 million loan by peeling away the emotions to get to the money issues.

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.

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.

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.

When in Greece: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the ninth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. It's international business at its crazy best, with John Putnam Thatcher wishing the Sloan did not follow fashions and invest offshore, but in the old USA where they had some control over things. The whole cast has a rollicking good time, with Ken Nicolls the center of the action this time. John Putnam Thatcher comes to the rescue with the help of two incredible archeologists.

Murder Makes the Wheels Go Round: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fourth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. Cars are at the center of things in Detroit and this witty Emma Lathen mystery comes complete with prison terms, scandals, the Department of Justice, Wall Street, and more. Thatcher, as usual, gets to the real motive - not emotion, but money.

This is an Emma Lathen political mystery featuring House Rep. Ben Safford, D-Ohio, who is caught up in a mystery and solves it skillfully as he does in her other six mysteries featuring him, much like John Putnam Thatcher does in her 26 Wall Street mysteries. The New York Times called Emma Lathen “The American Agatha Christie.”

Murder Out of Commission is an Emma Lathen/R B Dominic political mystery with Congressman Ben Safford from Ohio, the amateur sleuth.