Onder het pseudoniem Emma Lathen creëerden twee Amerikaanse zakenvrouwen boeiende mysteryromans. Hun verhalen duiken in ingewikkelde thema's geworteld in de zaken- en financiële wereld, verweven in spannende verhaallijnen. De auteurs blonken uit in scherpe dialogen en goed ontwikkelde personages, waardoor de wereld van bedrijfsintriges tot leven kwam. Hun werk biedt een scherpe verkenning van de menselijke natuur in omgevingen met hoge inzetten.
The Sloan Guaranty Trust has too much invested in an international development venture to alienate Greece's right-wing military leaders. But when the Sloan's representative in Athens suddenly disappears after being linked with a murdered leftist, the bank is embroiled in a full-scale military coup. Then senior bank officer Everett Gabler vanishes. And John Putnam Thatcher must enter a deadly political drama - to outwit a malevolent behind-the-scenes player and prevent a modern tragedy!
This crime story with the banker/investigator John Putnam Thatcher is set against the glamour and fierce rivalry of the Winter Olympics. It exposes a devious financial scandal within the Olympic village.
The St. Bernadette's Parents League was formed to save the old, bankrupt parochial school from being replaced by a twenty-story apartment house. The irate protesters had sentiment and Francis P. Omara on their side, Unger Realty had John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan Guaranty Trust, four million dollars, and the Archdiocese of New York behind them. Francis P. Omara was a powerful spokesman for his cause - but so was an unknown killer with a butcher's mallet who was determined to have the last word.... And so John Putnam Thatcher, the Sloan's urbane V.P., finds himslef out of Wall Street, in the heart of Queens, and smack in the middle of unholy murder!
The Parajian Family Inherits a Profitable Rug Business—And a Rivalry Sealed In Blood! Sloan Guaranty Trust is faced with a bitter fight among the Parajian heirs. The children own 40 percent of the stock, but Paul, their father, frustrates their efforts for complete control of the company. Then a distant relative returns to claim her profits, and is found poisoned. John Putnam Thatcher’s cool logic is put to its severest test when a second murder reveals a sinister design spun of ancient greed and deadly family secrets!
