Emma Lathen: 24 books

ePub version. The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics provide the background for a the bank embezzling and murders in the mystery. The usual cast of characters with Everett Gabler outdoing himself and John Putnam Thatcher solving the riddle, the embezzlement, and the murders. Great fun.

ePub version. The hottest fast food franchise is acquiring a staid insurance company and murder intercedes. John Putnam Thatcher intercedes to save the Sloan's $12 million loan by peeling away from the emotions to get to the money issues.

ePub version. 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.

ePub version. A brewery introduces a non alcohol beer that stirs up trouble with a lobbying group that believe the NA beer will lead children to drink beer as minors. Congressional hearings, congressman, lobbyists, a lawsuit, riot, and more create wonderful goings on for readers with John Putnam Thatcher identifying the murderer.

ePub version. The Archdiocese decides to close and sell a small parochial school that is losing money. This causes commotion in the neighborhood with a protest committee created and a murder occuring. Does it relate to the protest or is it something else. John Putnam Thatcher figures it out and makes the Sloan money in part by doing so.

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, and others acting up.

ePub version. A merger & acquisition mystery where 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 .

ePub version. 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, SVP of the Sloan, solves the 2 murders by following the money

ePub version. International, Robotics & Finance, with John Putnam Thatcher going to Japan, Alaska, and elsewhere on the Sloan business and solving an International murder involving Japanese, Koreans, and Americans.

“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 LBO, and more with Elizabeth Thatcher unraveling the mystery, with the usual cast of characters and great humor.