Something in the air
Emma Lathen
Wall Street banker/detective John Putnam Thatcher encounters intrigue along with a loan request from Sparrow Flyways, an airline whose expansion plans are not to be deterred, even by opposition from its shareholders.
Read Time: ~4.2 hr
Going for the Gold
by Emma Lathen (1981)
About this book
**From staid Wall Street to the dazzle of the Olympic trials, there's nothing a banker doesn't get involved in - including midair murder!** Lake Placid becomes anything but for John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective for Sloan Guaranty Trust, when a French skier is slammed to the snow by a sniper's bullet, and a check-fraud scheme swindles half a million dollars from the Sloan's special Olympics branch. Soon a sudden blizzard, a sinister coach, and a growing scandal leave Thatcher on thin ice, chasing a lone murderer closing in for another kill!
Setting / LocationNew York City
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreGoing for the Gold Lead Character
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