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Alexander Kinnan Laing (1933). The Sea Witch; A Narrative of the Experiences of Capt. Roger Murray and Other in an American Clipper Ship During the Years 1846 to 1856. (New York, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 487 p.). Sea Witch (Clipper-ship)--Fiction; Ship captains--Fiction; Clipper ships--Fiction.

Frederick Laing (1955). The Giant's House. (New York, NY: Dial Press, 437 p.).

Emma Lathen (1963). A Place for Murder. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 273 p.).

--- (1966). Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 183 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1966). Death Shall Overcome. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 190 p.).

--- (1967). Murder Against the Grain. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 184 p.).

--- (1968). Come to Dust. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 251 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1968). A Stitch in Time. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 185 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1969). Murder to Go. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 256 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1969). When in Greece. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 256 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1970). Pick Up Sticks. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 224 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1971). Ashes to Ashes. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 224 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1971). The Longer the Thread. (New York, NT: Simon & Schuster, 217 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1972). Murder Without Icing. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 236 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1974). Sweet and Low. (New York, NY: Simon b& Schuster, 223 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1975). By Hook or by Crook. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 223 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; Rug and carpet industry--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1978). Double, Double, Oil and Trouble. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 255 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1981). Going for the Gold. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 251 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1982). Green Grow the Dollars. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 249 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1983). Murder Makes the Wheels Go 'Round. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 183 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1984). Banking on Murder: Three. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 569 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, American; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction. Death shall overcome -- Murder against the grain -- A stitch in time.

--- (1988). Something in the Air. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 270 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1991). East Is East. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 268 p.). Banks and banking--Fiction.

--- (1994). Banking on Death. (New York, NY: O. Penzler Books, 166 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1995). Accounting for Murder. (New York, NY: O. Penzler Books, 186 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

--- (1996). Brewing Up a Storm: A John Thatcher Mystery. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 248 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--New York (State)--New York--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction. 

--- (1997). A Shark Out of Water: A John Thatcher Mystery. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 293 p.). Thatcher, John Putnam (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Josephine Lawrence (1935). If I Have Four Apples. (New York, NY: F.A. Stokes, 314 p.).

Thomas W. Lawson (1907). Friday, the Thirteenth; A Novel. (New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 226 p.).

Edwin Lefevre (1971). Wall Street Stories. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 224 p. [orig. pub. 1901]). Wall Street--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

--- (1985). Sampson Rock of Wall Street: A Novel. (Burlington, VT: Fraser Pub. Co., 393 p. [orig. pub. 1907]).

John Leggett (1964). The Gloucester Branch. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 248 p.).

Bernard Lester (1956). Weatherby Crisis. (New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 256 p.).

Sinclair Lewis (1934). Work of Art. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 452 p.).

--- (1938). The Prodigal Parents, A Novel. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 301 p.).

--- (1943). Gideon Planish, A Novel. (New York, NY: Random House, 438 p.).

--- (1971). The Man Who Knew Coolidge; Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 275 p. [orig. pub. 1928]).

--- (2001). Kingsblood Royal. (New York, NY: Modern Library, 325 p. [orig. pub. 1947]). Racially mixed people--Fiction; Race awareness--Fiction; Bankers--Fiction; Middle West--Fiction.

Sinclair Lewis; introduction to the Bison Book ed. by Maureen Honey (1994). The Job: An American Novel. (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 326 p. [orig. pub. 1917]). Women white collar workers--New York (State)--New York--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Sinclair Lewis (1922). Babbitt. (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 401 p.). Middle-aged men--Fiction; Businessmen--Fiction; Conformity--Fiction.

Sinclair Lewis; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman (1947). Dodsworth; A Novel. (New York, NY: Modern Library, 377 p. [orig. pub. 1929]). Americans--Europe--Fiction; Retired executives--Fiction; Married people--Fiction; Europe--Fiction.

Sinclair Lewis (1998). Babbitt. (New York, NY: Bantam Classics, 401 p. [orig. pub. 1922]). Middle aged men--Fiction; Businessmen--Fiction; Conformity--Fiction.

Judith Liederman (1979). The Moneyman. (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 436 p.).

George Lippard (1970). New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 284 p. [orig. pub. 1853]). City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction; New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

William Lobell (1949). The Steed Success. (New York, NY: Reader Press, 758 p.).

David Lodge (1989). Nice Work. (New York, NY: Viking, 276 p.).

Jack London (1908). The Iron Heel. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 354 p.).

--- (1919). Burning Daylight. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 361 p.).

M.B. Longman (1961). The Power of Black, A Novel. (New York, NY: R.S. Globus, 472 p.).

Stephen Longstreet (1940). Decade, 1929-1939. (New York, NY: Random House, 398 p.).

--- (1941). The Golden Touch. (New York, NY: Random House, 317 p.).

--- (1957). The Promoters; A Modern Novel. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 373 p.).

--- (1976). The Bank: A Novel. (New York, NY: Putnam, 377 p.).

George Horace Lorimer; edited with an introduction by James Schlesinger (1995). Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. (Washington, DC: Regnery Pub.. 272 p. [orig. pub. 1902]). Fathers and sons--Fiction; Merchants--Fiction; Men--Conduct of life--Fiction; Social ethics--Fiction; Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

Amy Lothrop (1852). Dollars and Cents. (New York, NY: Putnam, 2 vols.).

Francis Lynde (1917). The Helpers. (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 420 p.).

Francis Lynde; Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller (1968). The Grafters. (Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg Press, 408 p. [orig. pub. 1904]).

Francis Lynde; with illustrations by E.M. Ashe (1906). The Quickening. (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 407 p.).

 

 

 


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