Murder to Go

One by one, they landed in the hospital- suffering sever stomach pains, four days in a coma, often writhing death. The Public Health Service was baffled; emergency investigations were under way. Then it came out that the victims had all been customers of a multi-million dollar chain of take-out restaurants. John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, had to find the mysterious poisoner. If not, the entire franchise would collapse and Sloan Trust would be out $12 million.