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Timothy Cone #2
Timothy's Game
Timothy Cone, the unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files, is back in action. The place is New York city -- deep in the underworld of big business. The game is greed -- a high-powered hotbed of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres. And Timothy Cone is the player who plans to blow it all wide open...
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Lawrence Sanders
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Lawrence Sanders was the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty mystery and suspense novels. The Anderson Tapes, completed when he was fifty years old, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for best first novel. His prodigious oeuvre encompasses the Edward X. Delaney, Archy McNally, and Timothy Cone series, along with his acclaimed Commandment books. Stand-alone novels include Sullivan's Sting and Caper. Sanders remains one of America’s most popular novelists, with more than fifty million copies of his books in print. Also published as Mark Upton.
Lawrence Sanders was the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty mystery and suspense novels. The Anderson Tapes, completed when he was fifty years old, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for best first novel. His prodigious oeuvre encompasses the Edward X. Delaney, Archy McNally, and Timothy Cone series, along with his acclaimed Commandment books. Stand-alone novels include Sullivan's Sting and Caper. Sanders remains one of America’s most popular novelists, with more than fifty million copies of his books in print. Also published as Mark Upton.
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July 16, 2022
This is very different from the books that I usually read. Timothy Cone is a private detective who investigates financial crimes. There are 3 novellas, i liked each one of them (Run Sally Run, A case of the Shorts, One from column A) Stock markets don’t interest me, but I could easily follow the details in the book and even found it very interesting.
Co-incidentally, I read this amidst Elon Musk's hostile takeover bid of Twitter. Love it when the terms I read in newspaper , like, the poison pill is explained so well in the book. Though some things were dated, all the business related stuff is relevant even today.
The only problem I had- this is written in the present tense, it felt weird.
Co-incidentally, I read this amidst Elon Musk's hostile takeover bid of Twitter. Love it when the terms I read in newspaper , like, the poison pill is explained so well in the book. Though some things were dated, all the business related stuff is relevant even today.
The only problem I had- this is written in the present tense, it felt weird.
August 28, 2020
I'd read it in italian, even if this author is not really well know in our country.
I liked a lot these three short stories, written in a very "skinny" way.
You can see the 80's New York just in front of you.
I liked a lot these three short stories, written in a very "skinny" way.
You can see the 80's New York just in front of you.
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June 25, 2019
Didnt read this but my dad did and says it's the worst thing hes ever read and a select few lines he read to me certainly confirm that claim. "He had enough restraint to eat one single salted peanut" shut up man.
Edit: I read one (1) of three (3) short mysteries in this literary abomination and I feel as though I do not need to keep pushing on. Either his editor was not well paid or didnt care at all, this writing lacks conviction, purpose, drive, and wit. Nobody even speaks or sounds like they're from New York, let alone during the 80s era of Wall Street.
Edit: I read one (1) of three (3) short mysteries in this literary abomination and I feel as though I do not need to keep pushing on. Either his editor was not well paid or didnt care at all, this writing lacks conviction, purpose, drive, and wit. Nobody even speaks or sounds like they're from New York, let alone during the 80s era of Wall Street.
December 12, 2018
NYC in the 1980s great characters great stories
Lawrence sanders never won a Nobel or Man Booker, but he captured nyc in the 80s like no one else. His characters are great and the details bring you back to the good/bad old days.
Lawrence sanders never won a Nobel or Man Booker, but he captured nyc in the 80s like no one else. His characters are great and the details bring you back to the good/bad old days.
September 9, 2015
Lawrence Sanders is the creator of Archie McNally, an offbeat soul in Palm Beach, Florida, whose adventures are light hearted and spoof the upper crust who populate that area. Timothy Cone is an offbeat soul in New York City whose adventures serve to throw light on the denizens of the Five Boroughs. There isn't much more to compare. I have enjoyed the former, less the latter.
Cone is an investigator for a firm that specializes in financial crime. He is good at his job. He lives in a walk-up in Manhattan which he shares with his cat. He sleeps, by choice, on a mattress on the floor, and occasionally cleans the place. His main squeeze is his boss at the firm of Haldering & Co. She treats him like a peon at the office and is all over him when they are alone.
Timothy's Game is really a compilation of three novella or three of his cases. Each presents a slightly different challenge and illuminates a slightly different area of financial fraud. McNally is great in his research on Wall Street shenanigans and this, and some of his characters, are what may make this an appealing read. However, the book is getting long in the tooth and the current Wall Street is quite different in its methods of chicanery and its ways of tracking fraud. Oh, for the good old times!
Cone is an investigator for a firm that specializes in financial crime. He is good at his job. He lives in a walk-up in Manhattan which he shares with his cat. He sleeps, by choice, on a mattress on the floor, and occasionally cleans the place. His main squeeze is his boss at the firm of Haldering & Co. She treats him like a peon at the office and is all over him when they are alone.
Timothy's Game is really a compilation of three novella or three of his cases. Each presents a slightly different challenge and illuminates a slightly different area of financial fraud. McNally is great in his research on Wall Street shenanigans and this, and some of his characters, are what may make this an appealing read. However, the book is getting long in the tooth and the current Wall Street is quite different in its methods of chicanery and its ways of tracking fraud. Oh, for the good old times!
August 3, 2021
ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Cone, the investigator, reminds me of the guy on TV that always wore a trench coat and always had a cigar. Only difference is that Cone smokes Camel cigarettes like there is no tomorrow. The book is an enjoyable mystery.
Cone, the investigator, reminds me of the guy on TV that always wore a trench coat and always had a cigar. Only difference is that Cone smokes Camel cigarettes like there is no tomorrow. The book is an enjoyable mystery.
August 24, 2014
Wall Street investigator Timothy Cone solves three mysteries in this Sanders novel. All superb plots written really well as expected from the author. A fun and engrossing read.
August 13, 2018
Lawrence Sanders was a popular mystery and suspense author who wrote over 40 books. He passed away in 1998. This novel was written in 1988.
This is actually three short stories, all featuring private investigator Timothy Cone. Timothy specializes in white collar criminal investigations. He is a rather drab person, no wife, no kids, only a cat in his tiny, dirty bachelor pad in New York.
The stories are all in a business setting. The first deals with insider trading, the second short-selling a stock and the third is about the threat of an undesirable takeover of a family business.
In each story, we are taken methodically through Timothy’s investigative process as he ultimately saves the day for his client.
Very straightforward reading, no surprises. Not good enough to make me want to delve more into this author’s archives.
This is actually three short stories, all featuring private investigator Timothy Cone. Timothy specializes in white collar criminal investigations. He is a rather drab person, no wife, no kids, only a cat in his tiny, dirty bachelor pad in New York.
The stories are all in a business setting. The first deals with insider trading, the second short-selling a stock and the third is about the threat of an undesirable takeover of a family business.
In each story, we are taken methodically through Timothy’s investigative process as he ultimately saves the day for his client.
Very straightforward reading, no surprises. Not good enough to make me want to delve more into this author’s archives.
January 25, 2022
old school PI
You’ll enjoy this read if you like the seamy side of life and crime described in old-fashioned terms. As a language lover I enjoyed the vocabulary choices, and having an e-reader, I was able to highlight words to get meanings and origins adding to the enjoyment.
You’ll enjoy this read if you like the seamy side of life and crime described in old-fashioned terms. As a language lover I enjoyed the vocabulary choices, and having an e-reader, I was able to highlight words to get meanings and origins adding to the enjoyment.
July 20, 2008
Interesting collection of semi-short stories about a Wall Street investigator. I find it hard to believe, though, that someone can drink quite as much as these characters do.
February 1, 2020
This book has made me realize im not into wall street detective books, but i finished it and will not tell the person who gave it to me as a Christmas gift.
May 28, 2021
TimothyCone
Fun read - the sarcasm is just right! Adventurous , hilarious and entertaining! Thanks for introducing me to Timothy Cone
Fun read - the sarcasm is just right! Adventurous , hilarious and entertaining! Thanks for introducing me to Timothy Cone
January 27, 2019
"Streets of the financial district are crowded; everyone scurries, the pursuit of the Great Simoleon continuing with vigor and determination."
Another purely recreational (a euphemism for 'silly') read. Although I found the previous installment of Lawrence Sanders' Timothy series (The Timothy Files ) disappointing, devoid of the charm of the McNally series, the down-to-earth Timothy will have to do while I am waiting for copies of the last two installments of debonair Archy's adventures.
Timothy's Game (1988) is again a set of three novellas written in the third-person narration about professional adventures of one Timothy Cone, an investigator for the 'financial intelligence' company, Haldering & Co. In my view, the first story is by far the best, mostly because it transcends the clichés of the other two novellas. The main character of Run, Sally, Run! is Sally Steiner, the daughter of the owner of Steiner Waste Control Company. Sally is also the chief accountant, the vice-president, the office manager, and truck dispatcher for the company. When the "bentnoses" who control the entire New York territory increase the "tax" that the Steiners have to pay for the right to collect garbage, Sally decides to take things into her own hands. The plot is interesting, the action is fast, and Sally reads a bit more than a caricature of a character. Nice ending too. The reader will also find occasional glimpses of the McNally Sanders' prose:
In the third novella, One from Column A, Timothy Cone is hired by Mr. Lee, the elderly CEO of a corporation that processes and markets a variety of Chinese foods. Mr. Lee wants to find the reasons why the corporation's stock is suddenly trading at higher price and increased volume. Again, I do not remember much of the plot other than a shooting (ugh) and Mr. Cone's cooperation with a cliché of an FBI agent.
The plot is occasionally interrupted by scenes of Timothy Cone's carnal couplings with Samantha Whatley, his supervisor. Alas, the prose is over the top and not in a good way, like in McNally's novels, but overwrought and pretentious:
Two-and-a-quarter stars.
Another purely recreational (a euphemism for 'silly') read. Although I found the previous installment of Lawrence Sanders' Timothy series (The Timothy Files ) disappointing, devoid of the charm of the McNally series, the down-to-earth Timothy will have to do while I am waiting for copies of the last two installments of debonair Archy's adventures.
Timothy's Game (1988) is again a set of three novellas written in the third-person narration about professional adventures of one Timothy Cone, an investigator for the 'financial intelligence' company, Haldering & Co. In my view, the first story is by far the best, mostly because it transcends the clichés of the other two novellas. The main character of Run, Sally, Run! is Sally Steiner, the daughter of the owner of Steiner Waste Control Company. Sally is also the chief accountant, the vice-president, the office manager, and truck dispatcher for the company. When the "bentnoses" who control the entire New York territory increase the "tax" that the Steiners have to pay for the right to collect garbage, Sally decides to take things into her own hands. The plot is interesting, the action is fast, and Sally reads a bit more than a caricature of a character. Nice ending too. The reader will also find occasional glimpses of the McNally Sanders' prose:
"He is clad in a three-piece, dove gray flannel suit of such surpassing softness that it could have been woven from the webs of white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant spiders."The second novella begins with the Chairman and CEO of a large company getting assassinated in his limousine. The acting CEO specifically requests that Mr. Cone conducts the investigation, thanks to his reputation of doggedness and unconventional methods. Alas, the plot is so bland that having read the book just a few days ago I completely forgot what it was about. I just remember the clever word play on the title, A Case of the Shorts.
In the third novella, One from Column A, Timothy Cone is hired by Mr. Lee, the elderly CEO of a corporation that processes and markets a variety of Chinese foods. Mr. Lee wants to find the reasons why the corporation's stock is suddenly trading at higher price and increased volume. Again, I do not remember much of the plot other than a shooting (ugh) and Mr. Cone's cooperation with a cliché of an FBI agent.
The plot is occasionally interrupted by scenes of Timothy Cone's carnal couplings with Samantha Whatley, his supervisor. Alas, the prose is over the top and not in a good way, like in McNally's novels, but overwrought and pretentious:
"Their bodies join in a curve as convoluted as a Möbius strip. [...] Curses are muffled, oaths gritted, and when they finally come to a sweated juncture, each believes it a selfish victory and is beamy and content."I also take exception to the overabundance of periphrases. It is jarring when one has to repeatedly read about "Wall Street dick" instead of Timothy Cone, "city bull" instead of detective Davenport, and "the oldster" or "the septuagenarian" instead of Mr. Lee. All this does not help allay the suspicion that Lawrence Sanders who writes the good prose of the McNally's series is a different person.
Two-and-a-quarter stars.
May 31, 2021
See Balikov's review.
Three stories. Run, Sally Run; A Case of the Shorts; and One from Column A.
This tells how Timothy Cone works, and his belief system; everyone acts in their ow self-interest, it's the First Law of Nature. Mr. Sanders has tried to humanize him with a cat that eats what he eats, a girlfriend that, well, they get along, in the bedroom or on the sink or in elevators or . . . Otherwise it's a bunch of people eating garlicky salami, bagels & cream cheese, eating off fast food trucks and talking smack about everyone else.
Three stories. Run, Sally Run; A Case of the Shorts; and One from Column A.
This tells how Timothy Cone works, and his belief system; everyone acts in their ow self-interest, it's the First Law of Nature. Mr. Sanders has tried to humanize him with a cat that eats what he eats, a girlfriend that, well, they get along, in the bedroom or on the sink or in elevators or . . . Otherwise it's a bunch of people eating garlicky salami, bagels & cream cheese, eating off fast food trucks and talking smack about everyone else.
May 16, 2021
Timothy Cone is one of my very favorite characters, among the many created by Lawrence Sanders. I was stuck between reading slowly, so as to keep the books going as long as possible; and not being able to put it down. Sanders creates indelible characters, and once you know them, you find it hard to let them go. That is literary art!
May 21, 2023
This is a continuation of the Timothy Cone saga. The capers are just as good as Sanders writes. Overall an easy, fun read. Timothy Cone is the ultimate anti hero and the way he deals with authority makes all wish we could do. The only problem is that Sanders didn't write anymore Timothy Cone stories. Recommended.
November 7, 2023
A will written mystery
A will written mystery with interesting well developed characters. Once again the usual characters enter into an entertaining fast moving mystery. I would recommend this novel and the series too anyone who enjoys an old fashion mystery. Enjoy reading 2007
I read this as an e-book from the local library
A will written mystery with interesting well developed characters. Once again the usual characters enter into an entertaining fast moving mystery. I would recommend this novel and the series too anyone who enjoys an old fashion mystery. Enjoy reading 2007
I read this as an e-book from the local library
April 15, 2018
great read
October 6, 2019
One Of Sanders Best
This is one of if not THE best work Sanders ever did. The character....Timothy Come is a complete original. It's in my top favorite 5 books of all time.
This is one of if not THE best work Sanders ever did. The character....Timothy Come is a complete original. It's in my top favorite 5 books of all time.
November 21, 2020
Read in 1989. The return of detective Timothy Cone.
April 21, 2022
A decent read, but nothing spectacular. Enjoyable enough.
May 16, 2022
Three stories featuring Timothy's detective work.
December 28, 2022
The author makes the main character the sole translator for his reader in these selections.
July 23, 2023
Pretty good stories. Liked that there were three small books inside of one big one very smart story line.
May 23, 2024
My 2nd Timothy Cone read. Entertaining.
April 13, 2014
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It had earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It had earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
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April 3, 2016VERY GOOD
Timothy's Game (Timothy Cone #2)
by Lawrence Sanders
3.59 · Rating Details · 550 Ratings · 15 Reviews
Timothy Cone, the unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files, is back in action. The place is New York city -- deep in the underworld of big business. The game is greed -- a high-powered hotbed of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres. And Timothy Cone is the player who plans to blow it all wide open...
Timothy's Game (Timothy Cone #2)
by Lawrence Sanders
3.59 · Rating Details · 550 Ratings · 15 Reviews
Timothy Cone, the unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files, is back in action. The place is New York city -- deep in the underworld of big business. The game is greed -- a high-powered hotbed of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres. And Timothy Cone is the player who plans to blow it all wide open...
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February 22, 2015
Liked this collection of three stories about Timothy Cone, a private detective with a cat who has an interesting relationship with Samantha Whatley. Lawrence Sanders had a knack for creating main characters with rough edges whom you want to succeed. I've read many of his books and would recommend them to any mystery fan.
February 7, 2013
This woman and this man come up with an idea to get married so that she can keep the company after her dad dies and he gets a share too. They are a bunch of mobsters and all they care about is getting there way and eating garlic salami.
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October 22, 2008M San
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