Limited Partner / Mike Lupica

A cable TV journalist, Finley is upset when he learns that his friend Bobby Wyman, one of several part-owners of a club called Tim Tiernan’s, has died of a heroin overdose. Finley knows Bobby had been seriously sober for some time, so he believes Bobby’s girlfriend when she says the alleged overdose was a murder. But the “coke whore” is herself killed; the club’s main partner, former Mets pitching ace Tom Tiernan, is too drunk to be of any use; and interviews with other partners, their associates and other slimeballs yield more smoke than heat. Finally, a clever ploy pays off in tracking down a current Mets ace at a rehab clinic. Finley and his team of yuppie Jimmy Olsons are led to a secret and wonderfully illegal nightclub, link the murder to the Mafia and, with the help of a last-minute gift tip, find the killer.