Deaver Brown: 3 books

Emma Lathen used Wall Street, banking, and business as the backdrop for her inspiration for a series of entertaining mysteries. The New York Times said, “John Putnam Thatcher is Nero Wolfe with portfolio.” In fact many readers turn to Lathen when they have finished the Nero Wolfe stories. Another...

“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.

ePub version. 3rd 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 various business goings on, a famous accountant who swooped down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders,...