Эмма Латен — новинки

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 and it takes Thatcher to unravel the Gordian knot.

Was something fishy going on at the National Calculating Company? Was it mere inefficiency - or fraud? Irate stockholders have hired an outside accountant to investigate why all divisions, save one, are losing money. Unfortunately, the accountant is soon found dead, strangled with the cord of his own adding machine! Enter John Putnam Thatcher, the elegant silver-haired banker-detective who charmed so many readers in "Banking on Death." Thatcher would like to keep out of the whole affair, but his customary curiosity soon has him investigating just who would be accounting for murder.

Роман Эмма Латен «Банкиры в Греции» принадлежит к жанру политического детектива. Писательница блестяще решает задачу сочетания социально-экономического анализа и тонкой политической интриги. Стиль повествования подчеркнуто сдержанный, с элементами очень лаконичного и, вместе с тем, искрометного юмора.
Для любителей авантюрного романа подлинным открытием будет произведение Этель Уайт «Когда он умер в первый раз». Захватывающий сюжет, изощренный психологизм, остроумие и точность языка — вот лишь некоторые особенности этого бестселлера. Книга словно сама просится, чтобы стать основой экранизации.

В этот том вошли три детектива, сюжет которых построен на спортивных коллизиях. Роман М.В.Монтальбана остро современен: автор вводит читателей в атмосферу предолимпийской Барселоны, главный герой — футболист. «Убийство в аэропорту» — о хоккейной команде, которую ее владельцы перепродают друг другу, не считаясь не только с интересами, но и с жизнью спортсменов. «Форвард платит за все» — детективная история советского футболиста, побывавшего в Испании.

A no-frills airline was flying high - until an ugly murder clipped its wings!

Before John Putnam Thatcher can recover the missing million dollars the Russians have made as a down payment on wheat, he has to answer some rather peculiar questions:
- What was the Cuban Navy doing in New York harbor?
- Why was the Leningrad Symphony practicing on a basketball court?
- How on earth did a performing troupe of Russian otters that drink only vodka, dance the mazurka, and merrily assembled a three-stage rocket get into the picture?
- And, above all, who is the grim reaper dead set on committing murder against the grain?

The St. Bemadette'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, $4 million and the archdiocese of New York behind them.
Francis R 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.