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A cozy mystery and romance set in early 20th-century America similar to Sinclair Lewis’ landmark work Main Street, but with a softer touch and mysteries to carry the work forward.

An intrigue tale of Americans in Europe studying, perfecting their skills in music and medicine and more as career hopes collide with romance and mystery. A tale written before so many Americans such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald went to Paris for the same reasons.

From the "American Agatha Christie" comes a spectacular mystery equal to The Mystery of Roger Ackroyd and Witness for the Prosecution.

From "The American Agatha Christie" comes a rollicking insightful tale with fun and suspense along the way: a mystery and romance revolving around a health resort with different points of view about what is most appropriate as a mission and will keep it solvent and profitable.

A charming mystery, romance, and more set in an old traditional house in New York City in the late 19th century with servants and all, much like Agatha Christie mysteries set on the 1920s in England. Rinehart was called "The American Agatha Christie" by The New York Times and LA Times, and Rinehart outsold her in their mutual lifetime until Rinehart died in 1958.

This third Rinehart murder combines a mystery with a boy-girl romance, an old lady stepping out, political payoffs, and more by a woman The New York Times and LA Times both call “The American Agatha Christie” and who outsold Christie in their mutual lives.

Considered "The American Agatha Christie", Rinehart outsold Christie in their mutual lifetime through 1958 when she died. Her first book, The Circular Staircase, may have paved the way for The Mysterious Affair at Styles as the second does Agatha's Tommy and Tuppence series, which combined a thriller and mystery with a love match.

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.

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, nonprofits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive.

A tale of two Armenian brothers who come to America before World War II and scrimp to buy and sell a shipment of oriental rugs. One brother dies and the other takes the company all the way up to a world leader in the category in both wholesaling and retailing. Involves family goings-on, murder, trusts, and more. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to get to the practical money reasons for 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.

The Sloan Wall Street bank gets caught up in their mortgage commitment to a new apartment building in a closely tied community that opposes it because it displaces a long-important local parochial school. Emotions run high, but John Putnam Thatcher cuts through them to solve the murder for financial purposes.

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.

An authentic but not graphic autobiography of Sarah Ann Horn’s one-year and five-month captivity and enslavement by the Comanches until sold to an American to liberate her for no personal gain. She describes her husband’s murder and separation from her children as her loss evermore.

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.

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

Perhaps the greatest American novel written, The Great Gatsby is set in New York, in 1922, in a rich, spoiled world with crime and bootlegging in the background.

Original stories of mountain men between 1833 and 1837 traveling from the Missouri River, through the plains and Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific and back, with all the different Indians and Indian wars they observed from the opposite point of view - from Indians themselves, like Zitkala-Sa, in American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends.