John Ball and Bevan Smith: A Killing in the Market (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
MONEY, MANIPULATION, AND MURDER
A successful Wall Street speculator is turning his custom-bailt car into the private drive of his vast Long Island estate when a bomb blasts him and the vehicle to bitsen nearby Westchester another finan Cial manipukitor is executed in the back seat of his Cadillac.

Police specialist John Harbizon is called in to inves tigate. He soon realizes that he has a difficult task before him; the careers of both men consisted mainly in taking away other people's money, and many had cause to hate them.

Then the vice president of an L.A. brokerage firm is electrocuted while taking a shower and another financial advisor leaps or is pushed from the twenty-third floor of his Chicago penthouse.

Harbizon recognizes the frightening potential of th pattern that is emerging. Police specialists from Ney York, Chicago, and Los Angeles and two eager jour nalists join the investigation as the series of murders stuns the financial world. Someone seems to be more interested in collecting death certificates than stock certificates.

John Ball and Bevan Smith: A Killing in the Market. A novel of ruthlessly professional murders, brilliant police work, and swift suspense by the author of In the Heat of the Night. Medallion Books, ISBN: 155627002X (July, 1986), 250 p., $2.95.

John Ball and Bevan Smith: The Killing in the Market (UK 1980)

From the Publisher:
Stock-exchange speculator Nathan Lockheim was just entering the private drive to his splendid estate when the cushioned seat of his car erupted under him. Both he and the car were burned beyond recognition.

Police investigator John Harbizon soon finds he has a difficult task. Lockheim's career consisted of taking away other people's money, and many people had cause to hate him. Then financial manipulator William San Marco is shot with a carefully doctored bullet... next the vice- president of a brokerage firm is electrocuted while taking a shower... and Harbizon begins to see a frightening pattern emerging.

He will need all the help he can get to work his way through the baffling maze surrounding the stock-exchange murders.

John Ball and Bevan Smith: The Killing in the Market. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1980, ISBN: 0600200647, 185 p., £1.00.