Partners in Crime is the first in the Hubbert & Lil mystery series Katy Munger, writing as Gallagher Gray. In this series debut, Auntie Lil and T.S. Hubbert investigate the death of a very proper partner at a private Wall Street bank -- the very bank where T.S. used to work. On his first day of early retirement, T.S. is ordered back to work pronto to find out who would have the nerve to invade Sterling & Sterling's hallowed halls with murder in mind. Auntie Lil smells a mystery and promptly butts in, despite T.S.'s efforts to stop her. Together, they investigate a trail that leads them back four decades, to a time when the stuffy old men now in power at Sterling & Sterling were not nearly so old and nowhere near as stuffy. It was a time many of them would like to forget -- especially now that it appears retribution may finally be near.
From the original book flap:
Who knifed Sterling & Sterling partner Robert Cheswick and left him in the Partners' Room with his fly open?
Retired personnel manager T.S. Hubbert, hauled back to the office to field the press, cannot resist the challenge of this scandalous mystery. While the police focus on a possible insider-trading connection, Hubbert, strongly coached by his feisty eighty-four-year-old Auntie Lil, explores the personal angle. Lil insists the killer is a woman. Certainly the bank has its share of lethal ladies on staff -- not to mention Cheswick's elegant, ungrieving widow. Together Hubbert and Lil follow their hunches far afield, through deep secrets and more encounters with death. . . .
Partners in Crime is the first in the Hubbert & Lil mystery series Katy Munger, writing as Gallagher Gray. In this series debut, Auntie Lil and T.S. Hubbert investigate the death of a very proper partner at a private Wall Street bank -- the very bank where T.S. used to work. On his first day of early retirement, T.S. is ordered back to work pronto to find out who would have the nerve to invade Sterling & Sterling's hallowed halls with murder in mind. Auntie Lil smells a mystery and promptly butts in, despite T.S.'s efforts to stop her. Together, they investigate a trail that leads them back four decades, to a time when the stuffy old men now in power at Sterling & Sterling were not nearly so old and nowhere near as stuffy. It was a time many of them would like to forget -- especially now that it appears retribution may finally be near.
From the original book flap:
Who knifed Sterling & Sterling partner Robert Cheswick and left him in the Partners' Room with his fly open?
Retired personnel manager T.S. Hubbert, hauled back to the office to field the press, cannot resist the challenge of this scandalous mystery. While the police focus on a possible insider-trading connection, Hubbert, strongly coached by his feisty eighty-four-year-old Auntie Lil, explores the personal angle. Lil insists the killer is a woman. Certainly the bank has its share of lethal ladies on staff -- not to mention Cheswick's elegant, ungrieving widow. Together Hubbert and Lil follow their hunches far afield, through deep secrets and more encounters with death. . . .