Murder at the Margin is a whodunnit

Whodunit

A whodunit or whodunnit is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest. The reader or viewer is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime may be deduced before the solution is revealed in the final...

 written by U.S. economists William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga

Kenneth G. Elzinga

Kenneth G. Elzinga is an economics professor at the University of Virginia. His two major claims to fame are his antitrust expertise and his co-authorship of a highly successful trio of murder mystery novels in which the sleuth, dubbed Henry Spearman, solves the murder using principles of...

 using the joint pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Marshall Jevons

Marshall Jevons

Marshall Jevons is a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively....

. The novel introduces Harvard

Harvard University

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 economist Henry Spearman, a small, middle-aged, balding man who, when faced with murder, turns into an amateur sleuth who solves crimes by means of economic reasoning

Economics

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It has been published in Turkey

Turkey

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 under the title Marjinde Cinayet by Liberte Publications

Liberte Publications

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. The translator was Belkıs Çorakçı.