Pick Up Sticks Author:Emma Lathen Murder happens in the most unlikely places...when Wall Street's John Putnam Thatcher and his Down East crony, Henry Morland started hiking the Appalachian Trail, they hardly expected to stumble over a dead body. — ...nor did real estate promotors Eddie Quinlan and Ralph Valenti plan to play hosts to a murderer at their luxurious new vacation deve... more »lopment.
...but then, neither did Steve Lester anticipate bumping into his ex-wife or being hammered to death.
The head of the Sloan Guaranty Trust Department again combines his financial skills and unbounded curiosity to solve the murder of a man nobody seemed to dislike enough to kill.« less