The Longer the Thread (1971)

by Emma Lathen

Series: John Putnam Thatcher (13)

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An American company has trouble in its Puerto Rican plant when a foreman is murdered and only management could have done it. Thatcher figures it out, rescues the $3 million loan for the Sloan, and helps everyone recover.

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John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan Guaranty Trust is in Puerto Rico looking into a clothing company called Slax which recently opened a Puerto Rican plant now subject to sabotage when the foreman is murdered.

antiquary | Jun 28, 2015 |

John Putnam Thatcher solves a murder at a garment factory in Puerto Rico. The usual competent mystery, less entertaining than some of the JPT's set on Wall Street. (

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Bjace | Jan 27, 2012 |

from Goodreads: Corpses are bad for business, as John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president for Sloan Guaranty Trust, found out when he investigated the affairs of Slax Unlimited, a Sloan-backed plant in Puerto Rico beset with some very suspicious "accidents." With $3 million of Sloan money at stake, there was nothing for Thatcher to do but go down to San Juan and investigate. What he found was a body in the front office, violence in a fiery festival, and a ransom note to the governor of Puerto Rico. And for Sloan's premier investigator, murder was decidedly not conducive to business.

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Wall Street is the greatest financial market in the world, and the function of a market is to provide an arena for smooth and orderly transactions.

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An American company has trouble in its Puerto Rican plant when a foreman is murdered and only management could have done it. Thatcher figures it out, rescues the $3 million loan for the Sloan, and helps everyone recover.

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Corpses are bad for business... as John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, found out whe he investigated the affairs of Slax Unlimited, a Sloan-backed plant in Puerto Rico beset with some very suspicious "accidents". With $3 million of Sloan money at stake, and internal disagreements about whether Puerto Rico business falls under the domestic or foreign departments of the Sloan, there was nothing for Thatcher to do but go down to San Juan and investigate. What he found was a body in the front office, violence in a fiery festival, and a ransom note to the governor of Puerto Rico.

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