Emma Lathen
Emma Lathen is the collective pen name of American authors Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart, who wrote mystery novels. Under the Emma Lathen pen name, they wrote the John Putnam Thatcher series; as R.B. Dominic, they wrote the Ben Safford series. The authors, who were both businesswomen, met as graduate students at Harvard. Latsis passed away in 1997.

Emma Lathen debuted as a novelist in 1961 with the novel Banking on Death. Below is a list of Emma Lathen’s books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of John Putnam Thatcher Books

Banking on Death (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Place for Murder (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Accounting for Murder (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death Shall Overcome (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Against the Grain (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Stitch in Time (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Come to Dust (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When in Greece (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder To Go (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pick Up Sticks (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ashes to Ashes (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Longer the Thread (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Without Icing (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sweet and Low (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
By Hook or by Crook (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Going for the Gold (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Green Grow the Dollars (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Something in the Air (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
East Is East (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Right on the Money (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brewing Up a Storm (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Shark Out of Water (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Ben Safford Books

Murder Sunny Side Up (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder in High Place (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
There Is No Justice (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Epitaph for a Lobbyist (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Out of Commission (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Attending Physician (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Unexpected Developments (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Elizabeth Thatcher Books

Political Murder (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dot Com Murder (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Whatever Happened to Emma Lathen? (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Agatha Christie(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: There is No Justice was also published as Murder Out of Court. Unexpected Developments is also known as A Flaw in the System.

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Emma Lathen Synopses: A Place for Murder is the second John Putnam Thatcher novel by Emma Lathen. John Putnam Thatcher gets to the bottom of things by cutting through divorce, carryings on, dog shows, and more to examine the financial motives and nail the killer.

Accounting for Murder is the third novel featuring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen. Banker/detective John Putnam Thatcher deals with miscalculations and murder at the National Calculating Company, where an accountant is found strangled with his adding machine cord.

Death Shall Overcome by Emma Lathen is about Wall Street promoting the first Black partner in a distinguised brokerage firm. Ed Parry is a Yale Summa graduate, Rhode Scholar, and rich in his own right.

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