A Killing on Wall Street: An Investment Mystery

by Derrick Niederman

PRAISE FOR A Killing on Wall Street "Derrick Niederman brings special qualities to his novel: He is funny, smart, and imparts to A Killing on Wall Street a wicked, jaundiced eye and an insider's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047137458X
• ISBN13: 9780471374589
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Time Capsule!!!

Read this book in about 10 years. It's a great "finance" culture guide for the year 2000. many current event references.The book isn't great because it's not a intro to finance book that it's tries to be and also not a great mystery novel. It tries to be both but doesn't accomplish either.The mystery novel aspect is weak and seems to end in a hurry without much explantion or reason. It's almost as though he needed to fill a certain amount of pages and realized he was there and needed to end quickly.The finance part is weak also. The main character tries to explain finance and the stock market to his young (attractive) assistant. Although it comes off as the annoying person in work(school) who is always trying to proove how smart he/she is.Entertaining but light. Perhaps a good beach book!!!

Hilarious, Educational and on the Money

Niederman's book is riveting. In addition to providing an entertaining plot, the author continuously weaves in amusing pop culture references. I finished the book three days ago and I still can't get the Joey Buttafuoco reference out of my head."A Killing on Wall Street" also manages to explain, in an entertaining way, the basic workings of public investments and Wall Street. Furthermore, the book provides a cynical but basically correct picture of the real motivations of the analysts, investment bankers, money managers, public company presidents and the other Wall Street characters.

Clever was never better

A Killing on Wall Street is cleverly written and hard to put down. Author Niederman makes investing an easy read by bringing its lessons alive in a murder mystery that abounds with subtlety, wit and -- surprise! Not since Highsmith has a writer pushed so far beyond the conventional limits of the mystery genre to challenge the reader while also entertaining. It's like nothing you've read before.