Эмма Латен – лучшие книги

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

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.

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.

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?