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!
