Emma Lathen’s Death Shall Overcome
The plot here involves a Black man being appointed to an important finance guy role (this was written in the mid-60s), and some of the other finance guys are openly racist, some are quietly racist, and others are like “well he’s a millionaire and rowed crew at Yale so I’m actually fine with this”—and of course there ends up being a murder that Thatcher has to unravel. Another very funny mystery, though the explanation did drag a bit. A-.
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