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Three novellas about private investigator Timothy Cone, whose business is other people's 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Consists of three novellas (the "files") with continuing characters and time progression. The stories deal with ingenious money-laundering, implausible hybridization in a fertilization clinic, drug smuggling and a forerunner of Bernie Madoff. Our hero is hard-boiled and scruffy, but he has a cat, is dedicated to his job as a private detective, and has an on-going relationship with his lady boss. A good read.
En Los archivos de Timothy seguimos las investigaciones de Timothy Cone, un detective privado de Nueva York. Los tres casos que en esta novela debe resolver Cone, en compañÃa de la bellÃsima Samantha, permiten penetrar al lector, respectivamente en el mundo de las finanzas, en las clÃnicas donde se practica la fertilización in vitro, y en las galerÃas de arte donde se trafica con drogas. Página tras página se suceden situaciones sorprendentes, narradas de modo ágil y con gran rigor descriptivo.
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Three limp, unconnected episodes featuring Timothy Cone, "the Wall Street dick"-- in an unusually sloppy, thoroughly hackneyed offering from an uneven, crass mass-producer. ... Sanders tries to liven things up--with slangy present-tense narration, with lame, repetitious jokes, and with periodic couplings by Cone and his skinny boss Samantha. ... Grossly synthetic and thoroughly unappealing: show more only for Sanders' most undiscriminating fans. show less
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Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 15, 1920. He graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1942 and served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946. After years of working as an editor for a number of magazines, including Mechanics Illustrated and Science and Mechanics, Lawrence Sanders wrote and published his show more first novel, The Anderson Tapes (1970), at the age of 50 which won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel from The Mystery Writers of America. It was made into a film in 1971, as was The First Deadly Sin (1973). Sanders died February 7, 1998 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Timothy Files
- Original title
- The Timothy Files
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Timothy Cone; Samantha Whatley; Cleo (cat); Detective Davenport; Joe Washington; G. Edward Griffon (show all 12); Hiram Haldering; Anthony Bonaventure; Constance Figlia; Stanley Clovis; Lucinda Clovis; Grace Clovis
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- First words
- An elegant young man, plumpish but dapper, bounces down the stairs into the Union Square subway station.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Yeah," he says, "the same to you."
- Original language
- English
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- 420
- Popularity
- 73,971
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.29)
- Languages
- 9 — English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 25
- ASINs
- 8
