Greetings from New York! While I am still recovering from considerable jetlag I believe I am ready to take on this fabulous modern city, and with no end of intrigue.
Now to the case; Richard Bingley, a well-established hundred millionaire in Wall Street investment, has gone missing and is assumed dead after a man of his description was seen jumping off of Brooklyn Bridge. However his old partner, James Spalding, who I met today, refuses to believe that ‘Dick’ was suicidal – even after he resigned from his firm in disgrace and with litigation following him after he was revealed to have committed massive accounting fraud.
If he was murdered, prime suspicion points to his bitter wife who to her knowledge was the beneficiary of the bulk of will, although the will was altered shortly prior and most of the money strangely went to his rather estranged daughter Jane. Jane now runs the Bingley Foundation, an organization which provides health services in impoverished nations but which caused a rift in the family; Richard, the primary beneficiary, saw the foundation as more of a ‘tax dodge’ while Jane insisted that it do its bidding and serve the local populations in Botswana and Costa Rica. The alteration of the will – done in secret – was witnessed by his son Rupert, a lawyer at the firm who attests that his father was depressed and possibly suicidal; he was willing to send me the details for the other witnesses to the will as well.
Soon I will meet with his daughter Jane because as the beneficiary she has the original copy of the will. She is in the process of receiving a public policy master’s degree in Global Health at New York University. To think she has all this newly acquired wealth and she lives in a humble student dormitory!
Holmes
New York can be a pretty rude place if you’re not careful, but as a heads up, if you hear the term “No Shit, Sherlock.” It is not referring to you or insulting your intelligence literally. The term refers to someone who thinks they have your deduction skills, but merely have pointed out the obvious. Just didn’t want you to think it’s a personal attack against you if you heard it haha.
I do hope you got that gun you’d inquired about some time ago–gun laws are rather draconian in the UK, I’ve heard, but they’re more lenient in the US and you might need it.
Except wouldn’t he still need a license?
Mr. Holmes:
I hope that you will be able to solve this case- people get murdered every day.
Is there absolutely no end to the hellish cruelty that plagues the world?
And Poirot is going to New York to reconcile with you.
The Wild West Pyro
PS: Keep your gun with you at all times. And try to find your way around.
I enjoyed assisting on your last case and do hope my skills will be utilized once again. I’d suggest you become familiar with Google, but then my skills would become less useful. LOL
Interesting that Poirot’s last case also involved family matters, money and a will! And murder of course. Hopefully you will solve your case as swiftly & adeptly as he did his.
The game is afoot!