Timothy Cone

Three novellas about private investigator Timothy Cone, whose business is other people's business... and who believes that no crime should go unpunished. Haldering & Co., a team of private investigators, goes into a tailspin when Ed Griffon, one of their own, dies at the Union Square subway station, crushed under the wheels of an oncoming train. Timothy Cone, one of the Haldering PIs, believes that Griffon was trailing a target when he plunged to his death. While Cone doesn't fit in with his company's Wall Street image - he's shy, a sloppy dresser, and lives in a decrepit loft - he's a dogged detective. Cone expects the worst of most people. The exception is Samantha Whatley, his tough-talking office manager and secret lover. Samantha helps him sift through the evidence, and Cone is suddenly up to his neck in bribery, corruption, drugs, and murder. Even though Cone didn't know Griffon well, his strict sense of justice will lead him to risk his life to find his colleague's killer.

Wall Street private investigator Timothy Cone is back in this trio of novellas that plunge into the high-stakes worlds of insider trading, corporate espionage, and cold-blooded murder Timothy Cone works for an agency that provides "financial intelligence"-and often investigates murder and mayhem, too. In "Run, Sally, Run!," Timothy Cone investigates insider leaks in a New York investment banking house, and faces the ruthless Sally Steiner, who's willing to do anything to succeed in a man's world.   "A Case of the Shorts" opens with a bang: The CEO of a powerful Wall Street firm is gunned down in his limo. Cone is dispatched, ostensibly to uncover evidence of industrial sabotage. But what he finds is a simmering hornet's nest of greed, passion, and betrayal.   A Chinese food corporation on the New York Stock Exchange raises red flags in "One From Column A." When the elderly CEO of White Lotus employs Cone's company to investigate, Cone is soon tangling with kidnapping, extortion, and the Asian mafia, and it's hard to tell who's scamming whom.