When an associate at Chase & Ward is murdered on the eve of the closing of a lucrative merger between two computer corporations, the firm turns to its retired chairman, Reuben Frost, to solve the murder and save its reputation. Reprint.
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Retired Wall Street lawyer Reuben Frost explores yuppie life and death in his sixth outing (after Murder for Lunch ). His old law firm, Chase & Ward, calls on him for help when associate Juliana Merriman is murdered at the firm's new offices in the rising but still somewhat dubious Clinton area of Manhattan (aka Hell's Kitchen). The ambitious Merriman had been working on her first big independent case, the merger of a software firm headed by an old friend and a distribution company represented by hotshot but somewhat sleazy investment banker Harvey Rawson, with whom Merriman had quarreled on the last day of her life. As Frost investigates with the aid of Luis Bautista, his homicide detective friend turned lawyer, he uncovers a variety of motives with attendant suspects. Murphy wittily skewers modern business and morality as his urbane sleuth, who has a most engaging encounter with a sophisticated and efficient call girl, neatly apprehends another murderer.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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MURDER SAVES FACE by Haughton Murphy (James Duffy) is the last of this fine series that I can find and I want more. It is seldom that a series will run start to finish with great stories each time, Mr. Duffy's Reuben Frost is an exception.
Juliana Merriman, an associate with Chase & Ward is at the brink of closing a merger that will establish her career and lead to a partnership when she is strangled. Her body is discovered hidden in the law library's stacks. Ruben Frost is brought into the investigation at the urging of the new executive partner to find the murderer and save the reputation of Chase & Ward. Was Juliana murdered by a drug addicted lover? Was she murdered because she was about to uncover fraud by an investment banker? Was she murdered because interested parties wanted the merger to proceed at all costs? The questions are endless and Reuben is faced with the most difficult case and choice of his career. Haughton Murphy's mysteries get better and better. Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS.
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