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A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery
Marshall Jevons
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Description for A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
Harvard professor Henry Spearman--an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation--is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. Spearman's mission is to scout out for purchase the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former dwelling place of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes's teacher and the font of modern economic theory. A near miss for the American entrepreneur and the shocking and bizarre murder of Nigel Hart, the master of Bishop's College, soon make it clear that the whole affair is risky business. When a second corpse turns up, Spearman is jolted ... Read more
Harvard professor Henry Spearman--an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation--is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. Spearman's mission is to scout out for purchase the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former dwelling place of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes's teacher and the font of modern economic theory. A near miss for the American entrepreneur and the shocking and bizarre murder of Nigel Hart, the master of Bishop's College, soon make it clear that the whole affair is risky business. When a second corpse turns up, Spearman is jolted ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
178g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691164168
SKU
V9780691164168
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About Marshall Jevons
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 Murder at the Margin (Princeton). Elzinga, as Marshall Jevons, most recently wrote The ... Read more
Reviews for A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery
Readers will find themselves effortlessly picking up the economic principles strewn about by the authors as clues... The corpse, when it appears, is a show stopper.
Deborah Stead, The New York Times Book Review This lively, carefully crafted mystery surely offers the greatest good to the greatest number of readers.
Publishers Weekly
Deborah Stead, The New York Times Book Review This lively, carefully crafted mystery surely offers the greatest good to the greatest number of readers.
Publishers Weekly