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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 president through a sticky divorce regarding his sister, with money being the motive for the murder.

This book describes how a best-selling mystery writer seemed to drop off the earth in 1997. It includes her history, her successes, and her awards.

A rollicking good tale about oil power from Saudi Arabia to Houston, funding from Zurich to Wall Street, kidnapping and murder, and more with John Putnam Thatcher solving the mystery by penetrating the personal and corporate misdirections to identify the money motives, fraud, and murderer.

A tale of two Armenian brothers who come to America before World War II and scrimp to buy and sell a shipment of oriental rugs. One brother dies and the other takes the company all the way up to a world leader in the category in both wholesaling and retailing. Involves family goings-on, murder, trusts, and more. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to get to the practical money reasons for murder.

The Sloan Wall Street bank gets caught up in their mortgage commitment to a new apartment building in a closely tied community that opposes it because it displaces a long-important local parochial school. Emotions run high, but John Putnam Thatcher cuts through them to solve the murder for financial purposes.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

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.

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.