Murder To Go Author:Emma Lathen One by one, they landed in the hospital--suffering severe stomach pains, four days in a coma, often writhing death. The Public Health Service was baffled; emergency investigations were under way. Then it came out that the victims had all been customers of a multi-million-dollar chain of take-out restaurants. — John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-pr... more »esident of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, had to find the mysterious poisoner. If not, the entire franchise would collapse and Sloan Trust would be out $12 million.« less