First Pocket Books printing. Copyright 1982. John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective, is out in the field to harvest a crop of patent thievery, corporate scandal and multimillion-dollar death. C.P. Snow called Lathen probably the best living American writer of detective stories. 283 pages.

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