First Pocket Books printing. Copyright 1978. John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective, finds himself stepping lively a half-stride ahead of disaster when a kidnapping in Istanbul, a ransom in Switzerland and a murder in Texas ignite a flash fire fueled by international oil. C.P. Snow called Lathen probably the best living American writer of detective stories. 240 pages.

Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Crime, Whodunit, England, English Country Mystery, Emma Lathen, Mary Jane Latsis, Martha Henissart