A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery

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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'

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"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

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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 Mystery of the Invisible Hand (Princeton).