Showing results by publisher "Simply Media" in Suspense

A mystery centered on a family manufacturing business in New England squeezed by lower cost, potentially from a competitor, and the goings-on around it among family members, which leads to murder. Wall-Street banker John Putnam Thatcher solves it through an adroit combination of common sense, knowing people, and, above all, knowing what money will drive people to do, including murder.

Pick Up Sticks: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 11th of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. When Thatcher and his friend Henry Morland set off hiking the Appalachian Trail, they hardly expected to stumble over a dead body. Nor did real-estate promoters Eddie Quinlan and Ralph Valenti plan to play hosts to a murderer at their luxurious new development in New England.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

Twenty-first of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers. Features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. International, robotics, and finance, with John Putnam Thatcher going to Japan, Alaska, and elsewhere on Sloan business and solving an international murder involving Japanese, Koreans, and Americans.

Irrational is the 10th mystery in the Tom Walker series. This book is about a young woman who tries to get a rich man to marry her for his money. Her plans work out. But she doesn't realize he has one, too. In the Patricia Highsmith ironic sense seen in Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The fifth Tom Walker mystery centers around an entrepreneurial family in a fast-moving world. The irony and details are especially exciting for mystery fans who seek the latest great character and writer - you have found both here.

Seven of Charles Dickens' best ghost and thriller stories, which have been widely read and beloved worldwide. This collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. These stories provide a wonderful introduction Dickens before embarking upon his long novels; after these stories, listening to his longer novels becomes even more of a pleasure. Perfect for students and teachers seeking an understanding and appreciation of Dickens, without the time to engage with his long novels.

> Comfortable is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who learns in her senior year that her parents are getting divorced; wants to find a proper romantic relationship; studies martial arts for self-defense; and is confronted by two attackers, whom she takes out and kills in self-defense. It features a rather stunning conclusion.

Enthusiast is the sixth book in the Tom Walker mystery series, introducing Sarah Logan as a fellow traveler. This mystery starts with Sarah having to make her own way in her teenage years after her dad dies and her mother leaves for another life. Sarah pulls herself up by her bootstraps to avoid being sent to foster care. She leverages the little bit of property left to do this. Her ninth-grade Englishteacher, Joan Barker, spots her as a promising student and person to dispose ofher blackmailer, one way or another.

The third Tom Walker Mystery, after 18 and Abduct. A Patricia Highsmith style mystery where the victim is avenged, the killer killed, the blackmailer let loose, and everyone keeps moving along. The settings in Back Bay, Vermont, and Upstate New York shine. The characters capture your attention. A must read for mystery fans seeking a tough edged new author with bows to Patrica Highsmith, Agatha, Thomas Perry, Sue Grafton, and Rex Stout.

Abduct is the second book in the Tom Walker Series; 18 is the first. The story features Patricia Highsmith intrigue with a plot line worthy of Agatha Christie and P. D. James.

The fourth Tom Walker mystery addresses the issues surrounding the grandchild of a grocery baron who wants to upset the anonymity of the firm and family by moving into major liberal cities such as Boston and New York, which will stir up media interest, criticism of their wealth and power, instead of quietly serving the small towns of America between Worcester, MA west to Gary, Indiana, and north to non-Detroit Michigan and south to non-Louisville, Kentucky, without controversy as they have done for over 50 years.

A rip-roaring mystery and romance about a girl in the shade because her older sister can't get married, so is kept a child rather than being permitted to come out as a debutant and woman. Bab keeps them all jumping while trying to do right by everyone though often causing trouble instead. Bravely, she stands up to the bad guys and saves them all. Great fun with wit, wisdom, and irony along the way.

The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is the backdrop of this tale about embezzlement and fraud, gold medals, disco, parting, marriage, and romance, with Brad Withers providing one his classic turns, Everett Gabler being Everett, and skiing and murder that John Putnam Thatcher solves by following the money trail.

The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been international and the Sloan’s inside garment expert and finds murder - including a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking, witty, insightful fun.

A tale of nature lovers confronting second-home developers; hard-sell tactics delivering results; first and second wives battles; murders; and more. The sloan is disrupted by John Putnam Thatcher taking his annual vacation: a long walk on the Appalachian trail with his mail-order zealot friend. They run into murder, which Thatcher ultimately solves from his Wall Street perspective.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

A letter of credit fraud gets John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan involved in identifying and capturing the Russian and American involved. Gabler, Trinkam, Bowman, Nichols, Miss Corsa, George Lancer, and Brad Withers all become involved.

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.