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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Another series I'm a bit surprised hasn't stayed in print are the John Putnam Thatcher mysteries by Emma Lathen. Thatcher is Senior Vice President of the Trust Department at the Sloan Guaranty Trust bank in NYC, the third largest bank in Lathen's world. He finds himself involved in murders motivated by money, and solves the crimes by figuring out who stood to make (or avoid losing) a bundle because of the murder. Each book was set in a different industry (The first, _Accounting for Murder_ was in defense contracting), and fans would write to two women writing as Lathen asking when she would set a book in their industry. |
I like the tagline some of her books carried: "The Agatha Christie of Wall Street".
