Audiobook6 hours
Accounting for Murder
Written by Emma Lathen
Narrated by Deaver Brown
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings on, a famous accountant who swooped down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries. Called the American Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe with Portfolio by the New York Times.
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Reviews for Accounting for Murder
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Emma Lathen books are wonderful. These readings are dreadful: flat, error-filled, dull, and badly recorded. So bad that Scribd should withdraw them from the catalog.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A early book in the classic financial mystery series about John Putnam Thatcher --a troublemaking accountant investigating a calculating machine company is murdered. One of the better ones early in the seroes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Worthy member of the series
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoy the wry, some what distant, voice of the narrator who both likes people and sees the foibles.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This seemed to go hand in hand with The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Both take place in New York on Wall Street. The big numbers game. I have to admit I was bored by this book. None of the characters interested me enough to care what happened to them (another similarity with The Bonfire of the Vanities). Each and every one of them seemed dull and flat. In addition the plot was slow moving and I kept asking myself "where and when is this murder? I know this guy dies so when does it happen?" Accounting for Murder is supposed to focus on amateur silver-haired detective John Putman Thatcher and yet for the first 60 pages he's barely in the story. Initially, he is invited to a lunch with Mr. Fortinbras who late winds up dead.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When a distinguished accountant is murdered during the audit of a Sloan customer, John Putnam Thatcher must unravel the threads of a clever fraud to find a ruthless killer.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This series, featuring Wall Street banker John Thatcher, show us a very different banking world, in which senior bankers concern themselves with real businesses, not derivatives houses of cards. A strong sense of time and place(in this case Wall Street in the 1960's( and an undertone of humor are the main attraction of this series. This time, Thatcher is investigating the murder of an accountant, who has discovered some nasty truths about a data processing company.