Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress

Young, well-intentioned, introverted, intellectual, and socially inept, Tedmund "Ted" Strickland moves from Upstate New York to New York City. There he attends university, earns a degree in finance, and lands a plum job with a brokerage firm. He unwittingly finds himself flung into social circles he'd never willingly have entered. He had been bullied as a youth, and now manipulated as an adult.

Unexpectedly, Ted receives a call from a woman he once had a crush on, the heiress Violet Naysmyth...