A Shark Out of Water: A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery - Softcover

Lathen, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061044601 ISBN 13: 9780061044601

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1998

Synopsis

Intrepid Wall Street banker John Putnam Thatcher finds himself embroiled in a white-collar scandal involving a quasi-government commission planning to modernize the Kiel Canal, the link between the North and Baltic Seas

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Review:

At first glance, a banker-as-private eye seems a less than scintillating choice for a mystery novel's hero, but it doesn't take long for Emma Lathen's protagonist, John Putnam Thatcher, to win the reader's heart and mind in Shark Out of Water. Putnam, a Wall Street banker, is in Gdańsk trolling for new investment opportunities when a whistle-blowing member of a European consortium turns up dead. In the course of solving the murder, Putnam also delivers a neat explanation of international finance, which is nearly as fascinating as the crime itself. Money, murder, and an exotic setting--Lathen delivers the goods with style and panache.

From AudioFile:

Most murder mysteries are played out on a rather small stage. This murder is an international incident involving players from much of northern Europe. Still, it moves in the classic pattern, right down to the scene of explanations at the end for the sake of the reader who may have failed to follow all the twists of the plot. Garrick Hagon takes the listener through the story effortlessly with the firm touch of a seasoned professional. Both text and reading are characterized by workaday competence rather than any special flair, but devoteés of the John Putnam Thatcher series should be well satisfied. J.N. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0061044601
• ISBN 13: 9780061044601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320