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The Sloan Guarantee Trust, the third‑largest bank in the world, brokers a high‑stakes real‑estate transaction: the Catholic Church sells a parochial school in Queens to a developer eyeing a luxury residential tower. The sale promises large financial gains for the diocese but threatens the local community, whose parents and businesses are determined to keep the school open. As stakeholders clash with no compromise in sight, the tension escalates—do any feel compelled to stop the development by any means, even murder? Senior vice‑president John Putnam Thatcher of Sloan’s trust department is drawn into the murky intersection of faith, finance, and crime, confronting financial secrets and moral dilemmas in the heart of New York’s Wall Street and Queens neighborhood.
First publish date: 1971
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Emma Lathen
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