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FROM: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 2:20 PM

Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
advisors can suggest.

TIA

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 2:57 PM

Many of Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher mysteries, including MURDER TO GO, BANKING ON DEATH, BREWING UP A STORM, GREEN GROW THE DOLLARS, RIGHT ON THE MONEY, SOMETHING IN THE AIR, and SWEET AND LOW.


Marsha J. Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wi 53233-1436
Phone: 414/286-3010
FAX: 414/286-3102
Email: <[removed]@mpl.org>

"That All May Read"

>>> "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us> 11/02 1:56 PM >>>
Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
advisors can suggest.

TIA

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Lisa Rose Webb" <[removed]@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 4:23 PM

How about Michael Crichton's Rising Sun?

>From cover:
On the 45th floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown LA--the new American
headquarters of the immense Japanse conglomerate--a grand opening
celebration is in full swing.
On the 46th floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a
beautiful young woman is discovered.
The investigation begins...and immediately becomes a headlong chase
through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue...a no-holds-barred
conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely
coveted prize--and the Japanese saying "business is war" takes on a
terrifying reality...


Hope this may help!

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Bruce Bumbalough wrote:

> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.
>
>

FROM: "ALD" <[removed]@omaha.lib.ne.us>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 5:18 PM

Our in-house fiction and mystery indexes offered these possibilities:

Job by Douglas Kennedy
Ax by Donald Westlake

a series of mysteries by Patricia H. Sprinkle
her character is Sheila Travis, corporate executive

HTH!

Sherry Forrest
Arts & Literature Dept.
Omaha Public Library (NE)

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
[<A HREF="mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On">mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On</A> Behalf Of Bruce
Bumbalough
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:57 PM
To: Fiction List
Subject: Corporate murder mysteries


Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
advisors can suggest.

TIA

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX" <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 5:43 PM

Gini Hartzmark writes business mysteries. Try "Bitter Business"

Vicki Novak
North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85032

[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov
(602) 506-6352
<A HREF="http://mcld.maricopa.gov">http://mcld.maricopa.gov</A>

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bumbalough [<A HREF="mailto:bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us">mailto:bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us</A>]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:57 PM
To: Fiction List
Subject: Corporate murder mysteries


Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
advisors can suggest.

TIA

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Barbara Baxter" <[removed]@alam1.lib.co.alameda.ca.us>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 6:13 PM

Mysteries by Linda Grant (ie BLIND TRUST, LETHAL GENES) take place in a
corporate setting.
Barbara Baxter

Reference Services
Alameda County Library
Fremont, CA
(510) 745-1413


************************** Original Message *************************

From: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 13:56:36 -0600
To: Fiction List <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Subject: Corporate murder mysteries
Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org

Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
advisors can suggest.

TIA

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Marjorie Freilich-Den" <[removed]@rocketmail.com>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 9:21 PM

--- Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX
<[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV> wrote:
> Gini Hartzmark writes business mysteries. Try
> "Bitter Business"
>
> Vicki Novak
> North Central Regional Library
> Maricopa County Library District
> 17811 N. 32nd Street
> Phoenix, AZ 85032
>
> [removed]@mail.maricopa.gov
> (602) 506-6352
> <A HREF="http://mcld.maricopa.gov">http://mcld.maricopa.gov</A>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Bumbalough
> [<A HREF="mailto:bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us">mailto:bbumbalough@grapevine.lib.tx.us</A>]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:57 PM
> To: Fiction List
> Subject: Corporate murder mysteries
>
>
> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in
> a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren
> Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and
> more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of
> Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth
> International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say
> howdy next time.
>
>


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FROM: "Hudak, Melissa" <[removed]@centegra.com>
REC'D: 11/3/99, 6:11 AM

Carole Berry writes a series featuring a temp worker who runs into murders
wherever she works.

Melissa Hudak
Centegra Health System

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Bumbalough [[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:57 PM
> To: Fiction List
> Subject: Corporate murder mysteries
>
> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.
>

FROM: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/3/99, 12:07 PM

Thanks to Marsha Valance, Anna Baker jones, Lisa Rose Webb, Sherry
Forrest, Vivki Novak, Barbara Baxter, Marjorie Freilich-Den, and Melissa
Hudak for their responses to my question about corporate murder
mysteries.

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/3/99, 3:17 PM

A compilation of the responses to my question about corporate murder
mysteries:


Crichton, Michael. Rising Sun.

Grant, Linda. Blind Trust.
_________. Lethal Genes.

Hartzmark, Gini. Bitter Business.

Kennedy, Douglas. Job

Lathen, Emma. Banking on Death.
___________. Brewing Up a Storm.
___________. Green Grow the Dollars.
___________. Murder to Go.
___________. Right on the Money.
___________. Something in the Air.
___________. Swwet and Low.
Westlake, Donald. Ax.

Also suggested were titles by Carole Berry about a temp worker who runs
into murders wherever she goes.

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Lynda Whitton-Henley" <[removed]@intcomm.net>
REC'D: 11/3/99, 9:36 PM

Harold Robbins' The Betsy, The Mustang? and Tycoon might fit, but the are
quite sexually explicit.

Lynda Whitton-Henley, Br. Mgr.
NW Br, Corpus Christi Public Lib.
[removed]@intcomm.net

Bruce Bumbalough wrote:

> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "Dennis K. Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 11/4/99, 10:31 AM

>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 14:53:02 -0600
>From: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
>Subject: Corporate Murder Mystery Bibliography
>
>A compilation of the responses to my question about corporate murder
>mysteries:
>
<snip>
Sorry I'm late jumping in on this one; I've been out of the office for
a couple of days. You should add Kenneth Fearing's THE BIG CLOCK, a
classic.

Stephen Olderr's MYSTERY INDEX was published in 1987 by the American
Library Association. He includes a subject index which lists mystery
novels under "Business," "Mail Order Business," "Retail Trade," and
"names of specific kinds of businesses"--for instance, "Publishers
and Publishing," "Factories," "Automobile Industry and Trade," etc.etc.
Since the book is published by ALA it should be fairly widely held,
but for starters here's his list for just plain "Business" (minus
those titles already suggested):

Cole, GDH & Margaret-- The man from the river
Collins, Michael -- Blue death
Davey, Jocelyn -- A treasury alarm
Eller, John -- Rage of heaven
Fuller, Roy -- Second curtain
Grafton, CW -- The rat began to gnaw the rope
Jeffries, Roderic -- An embarrassing death
Keeler, Harry Stephen -- Y. Cheung, business detective
Lewis, Roy -- Most cunning workmen
Linzee, David -- Belgravia
MacDonald, Philip -- The white crow
Maling, Arthur -- Go-between
ditto -- The Koberg link
Masur, Harold Q -- The broker
also -- Make a killing
McCormick, Jim -- Last seen alive
Paretsky, Sara -- Deadlock
Rhode, John -- Murder at Bratton Grange
Rice, Craig -- My kingdom for a herse
Sellers, Michael -- Cache on the rocks
Stout, Rex -- If death ever slept
also -- Too many women
Upton, Robert -- A golden fleecing
Williams, David -- Murder for treasure

I'm trying to figure out a way to throw in HUMAN RESOURCES by Floyd
Kemske, which has some of the trappings of a mystery/suspense novel
but, we quickly learn (very quickly, if we read the LC subject headings)
is actually horror/humor -- the new CEO is a vampire, and vampirism
rapidly becomes part of the corporate culture and the only way to
advance professionally. Kemske's book was published in 1995 by
Catbird Press; he has two earlier novels in the same business setting
for horrific black humor/allegory vein which I've not yet read:
LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT in 1992 and THE VIRTUAL BOSS in 1992, both also
from Catbird.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu


>Crichton, Michael. Rising Sun.
>
>Grant, Linda. Blind Trust.
>_________. Lethal Genes.
>
>Hartzmark, Gini. Bitter Business.
>
>Kennedy, Douglas. Job
>
>Lathen, Emma. Banking on Death.
>___________. Brewing Up a Storm.
>___________. Green Grow the Dollars.
>___________. Murder to Go.
>___________. Right on the Money.
>___________. Something in the Air.
>___________. Swwet and Low.
>Westlake, Donald. Ax.
>
>Also suggested were titles by Carole Berry about a temp worker who runs
>into murders wherever she goes.
>
>- --
>Bruce L. Bumbalough
>Reference Librarian
>Grapevine Public Library
>1201 Municipal Way
>Grapevine, TX 76051
>Voice: (817) 410-3404
>Fax: (817) 410-3080
>E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
>The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
>If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
>Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.
>
>------------------------------
>
>End of fiction_l-digest V1 #879
>*******************************
>
>
>

FROM: "Viccy Kemp" <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/9/99, 8:47 AM

I am late in replying to this posting because I was out of town, but I
wanted to stick my two cents' worth in anyway. Stephen Frey writes mysteries
about the corporate world. The best one I've read in a long time was a book
by Sabin Willett called "The deal." I don't think it is considered a real
mystery; we have it in general fiction, but it revolves around a miswritten
contract and a man is murdered as a result.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Bumbalough [[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:57 PM
> To: Fiction List
> Subject: Corporate murder mysteries
>
> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.
>

FROM: "Lynda Whitton-Henley" <[removed]@intcomm.net>
REC'D: 11/3/99, 9:36 PM

Harold Robbins' The Betsy, The Mustang? and Tycoon might fit, but the are
quite sexually explicit.

Lynda Whitton-Henley, Br. Mgr.
NW Br, Corpus Christi Public Lib.
[removed]@intcomm.net

Bruce Bumbalough wrote:

> Patron is seeking titles of murder mysteries set in a corporate
> environment. I was able to suggest "Edsel" by Loren Estleman, but we do
> not own it. Are there others you mucher wiser and more talented reader
> advisors can suggest.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International
> Airport, you have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

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