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Emma Lathen

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Murder to Go - Emma Lathen
1970 British hardcover first edition, first impression, Gollancz, London
A good copy unfortunately missing it's dustwrapper
No names etc, tight and square - minor marks to boards
A solid reading copy
For Sale at £6.50 (approx $11) *P11 - free delivery worldwide !

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The Longer the Thread - Emma Lathen
1972 UK hardback book club edition, BCA, London
A near fine book in near fine dust jacket
The book has no names or inscriptions
The dustwrapper has no chipping or tears
Unusually this mystery is set in Peurto Rico. It is not out of the reach of Thatcher's bank though, he begins to become suspicious after making a £3 million loan and begins to wonder what else is wrong there other than late delivery of orders
A nice clean and bright copy, the same as the 1st bar publisher logos
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Green Grow the Dollars - Emma Lathen
1982 UK hardback first edition, first impression, Gollancz, London
A fine book in fine price unclipped dust wrapper
A very nice copy
For Sale at SOLD £9 (approx $14) *W12 - free delivery worldwide !

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as RB Dominic

The Attending Physician - R.B. Dominic
1980 UK hardcover 1st edition, first impression, Macdonald, London
A VG book in VG+ unclipped dust jacket
The book has a neat inscription to front pastedown and some foxing to edges
The wrapper has no loss or tears
This is a medical based mystery with doctors presenting bills for operations never performed. Things reach a crisis point and a potential scandal is on the cards - then murder. Top form writing from this author
With the foxing, more of a reading copy
For Sale at £7 (approx $12) *P19 - free delivery worldwide !

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Murder Out of Commission - R.B. Dominic
1976 UK hardcover 1st edition, first impression, Macdonald, London
A VG+ book in VG+ price clipped dust jacket (publisher repriced, sticker then removed)
The book has a inscription to front pastedown mostly obscurred by front flap
The wrapper has no loss or tears
A benton Safford mystery in which he tracks down a killer amid the smoke and shadows of a nuculear power plant planning protest
One of the scarcer titles
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Brief Biography
LATHEN, Emma. Pseudonym for Mary J. Latsis and Martha Henissart;a!so write as R.B. Dominic. Americans. LATSIS, Mary J.: grew up in Forest Park, Illinois. Educated at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Worked for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome; economist until 1969. HENIS-SART, Martha: born in New York City. Worked in corporate finance and banking until 1973. Recipients: Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger (UK). 1967; Mystery Writers of America Ellery Queen Award, 1983

Emma Lathen - The Characters
John Putnam Thatcher
For a widower of about sixty, John Putnam Thatcher keeps very active. Senior Vice-Presi-dent of the Sloan Guaranty Trust Co., he plays tennis, goes hiking, and solves mysteries in the eastern United States. This urbane sleuth began as an expert on stocks, bonds, and trusts. He has become equally knowledgeable regarding murder, which should not be too surprising, since greed, with which he is familiar, has always been a prime cause of murder. Thatcher has surrounded himself with an interesting group of associates, ranging from aging Wall St. playboys to a serious, prissy secretary.

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