Murder at the Margin
A Henry Spearman Mystery
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1993
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Revised edition
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03391-4 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03391-4 (ISBN)
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A murder mystery marking the debut of Henry Spearman, a distinguished Harvard economist who uses economic theory to track down a killer on a lush Caribbean island. Although this novel can be read as a detective story, it contains basic economic lessons aimed at the undergraduate.
Cinnamon Bay Plantation was the ideal Caribbean island getaway—or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder.
While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws—those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer’s trail as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to densely forested hiking trails with perilous drops to a barren offshore cay.
Cinnamon Bay Plantation was the ideal Caribbean island getaway—or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder.
While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws—those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer’s trail as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to densely forested hiking trails with perilous drops to a barren offshore cay.
Marshall Jevons is the pen name of Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, and William Breit of Trinity University (1933–2011). Together they wrote two other Henry Spearman mystery novels under the Jevons pseudonym: The Fatal Equilibrium (Ballantine) and A Deadly Indifference (Princeton). Elzinga, as Marshall Jevons, most recently wrote The Mystery of the Invisible Hand (Princeton).
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 397 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-03391-9 / 0691033919 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-03391-4 / 9780691033914 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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