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A favorite about the annual Vandam gardening catalog that brightened up the winter so avid gardeners could dream about spring plantings. A contest for a great tomato, Numero Uno, between Standard Foods/Vandam's and little Seedmen's, worth millions. Witty, urbane, fun, and ironic in Emma Lathen's style, with the usual cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher discovers who the murderer is, with written certified documentation, by thinking like a banker. A treat for mystery fans.

The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is the backdrop of this tale about embezzlement and fraud, gold medals, disco, parting, marriage, and romance, with Brad Withers providing one his classic turns, Everett Gabler being Everett, and skiing and murder that John Putnam Thatcher solves by following the money trail.

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.

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, nonprofits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive.

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 is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been international and the Sloan’s inside garment expert and finds murder - including a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking, witty, insightful fun.

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.

A tale of nature lovers confronting second-home developers; hard-sell tactics delivering results; first and second wives battles; murders; and more. The sloan is disrupted by John Putnam Thatcher taking his annual vacation: a long walk on the Appalachian trail with his mail-order zealot friend. They run into murder, which Thatcher ultimately solves from his Wall Street perspective.

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.

Pick Up Sticks: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 11th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. When Thatcher and his friend Henry Morland set off hiking the Appalachian Trail, they hardly expected to stumble over a dead body. Nor did real-estate promoters Eddie Quinlan and Ralph Valenti plan to play hosts to a murderer at their luxurious new development in New England.

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 bank repaid. In this case it relates to a trust fund with an heir missing and then killed.

This is the third of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings-on. He's a famous accountant who swoops down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries.

This is the second 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 divorce, carryings-on, dog shows, and more to examine the financial motives and nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries. Called the "American Agatha Christie" and "Nero Wolfe with Portfolio" by The New York Times.

This is the sixth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. $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 murders in the process. Great fun with the Soviets, Americans, and others acting up.

This is the first of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. The Sloan receives a request for an advance against a trust that does not permit it. John Putnam Thatcher gets involved by one heir, Arthur Schneider, President of Schneider Manufacturing, and grandson of the founder who left a trust for his grandchildren upon the death of all of their parents. The last parent is about to die from natural causes. One heir is missing and Thatcher, Trinkam, and Nicholls, all Emma Lathen regulars, work to find the missing heir. Soon they learn a murder is involved....

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.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

Something in the Air: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 20th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers; it features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A discount airline is considering going from a profitable commuter line to a major coast-to-coast airline, taking on the big guys. An internal fight breaks out, and the Sloan is involved through a loan and stock in a trust it manages, so John Putnam must get involved with his henchmen Gabler and Trinkham. This is great fun and deals with many pieties, making it a must-listen.