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Lädt ... Going for Gold (1981)von Emma Lathen
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. John Putnam Thatcher is attending a Winter Olympics at Lake Placid (not the realm one) where his Sloan Guaranty Trust is providing the banking facilities. They see a star French skier shot and killed in mid jump, and shortly afterward learn the victim was apparently involved in a counterfeit travelers' check scheme that has taken half a million dollars from his bank. I had a vague memory I did not like this one the first time through, but so far I am enjoying rereading it. I notice a resemblance to Double, Double, Oil and Trouble in that the victim in ach s apparently involved in a major fraud ( ) 43/2009. Emma Lathen, a pseudonym for two businesswomen, was quite popular with my parents' generation of mystery readers but this is my first. Nice local color on the Lake Placid Olympics, reasonable mystery structure with the culprit detectable but not easily detectable. The amateur detective, John Thatcher, has no personality, facilitating reader identification. Two flaws: I'm not sure how the traveler's check crime was supposed to profit the perpetrators. And Captain Ormsby appears without being introduced - editing glitch in paperback edition? (Bookmooched.) Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheJohn Putnam Thatcher (18)
The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics provide the background for a the bank embezzling and murders in the mystery. The usual cast of characters with Everett Gabler outdoing himself and John Putnam Thatcher solving the riddle, the embezzlement, and the murders. Great fun. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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