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Cinnamon Bay Plantation on lush, tropical St. John was the ideal Caribbean island getaway: Or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman, long overdue for R & R, it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Prickly and priggish, Gen. Hudson T. Decker (Ret.) might have been a Cinnamon Bay regular, but he'd managed to alienate fellow guests and a lot of townspeople over the years. Suddenly, before the local inspector has assembled a suspect list, there is a mysterious drowning and a second murder, this time a former U.S. Supreme Court justice. Prime suspects abound: a liberal professor of divinity, a vengeful wife, an alleged girlfriend, and a handful of angry local activists.
While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws--those of economics. Theorizing, hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the trail of the killer as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a premier resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to the densely forested hiking trails with their perilous drops to a barren, deserted cay offshore.
Now available in a new critical edition, Marshall Jevons's Murder at the Margin was first published in 1978, when it marked the debut of Henry Spearman. Spearman relies on economic thinking to solve crimes--a distinction that places him in the pantheon of such fictional investigators as Father Brown, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Rabbi Small.
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"At last a new kind of mastermind--a rational 'homoeconomics' and libertarian. If Henry Spearman had not existed, God would have had to invent him. Marshall Jevons did, to his readers' benefit."--Paul Samuelson
"I thought the economic argument extremely ingenious and the idea of using economic analysis as a way to solve the mystery most original."--Milton Friedman
About the Author
Marshall Jevons is the pen name of Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, and William Breit of Trinity University (1933–2011). Together they wrote two other Henry Spearman mystery novels under the Jevons pseudonym: The Fatal Equilibrium (Ballantine) and A Deadly Indifference (Princeton). Elzinga, as Marshall Jevons, most recently wrote The Mystery of the Invisible Hand (Princeton).
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- PublisherT. Horton
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0913878154
- ISBN 13 9780913878156
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages168
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by co-author economist William L. Breit to a University of Virginia colleague, historian Bill Abbot, editor of the George Washington Papers. INSCRIBED: "For Eleanor and Bill Abbot/ with admiration/ and thanks for a delightful/ evening of dinner/ and conversation. Marshall Jevons (Bill Breit)". Jevons was co-author with Prof. Ken Elzinga. A Good, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a heavily foxed dust jacket missing a few small edge pieces and with a tear taped on the inside. The book is foxed on the edges and has some light internal foxing from its years in Virginia. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 023392
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Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (1978) published by Thomas Horton and Daughters. Hardcover with dust jacket ($7.95 price on flap). 8vo with 168 pages. Marshall Jevons is a pseudonym for two economic professors, William Breit and Kenneth Elzinga. Their character, 'Henry Spearman' is Harvard economists that solves mysteries using economic driven deductions. Their second book, "The Fatal Equilibrium" was the first mystery novel to be published by a University Press. An illusive first edition and very rare. Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Interior clean and tight. The spine is white with red text. Size: 8vo. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 022501
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