After a wrong turn into the Bronx, the African-American kid who may or may not have been trying to hold up the main character's Mercedes gets run over and killed.
The protagonist's mistress Maria is illegally re-renting an apartment, and her husband Arthur dies in a restaurant too expensive to call an ambulance in. After a wrong turn into the Bronx, the African-American kid who may or may not have been trying to hold up the main character's Mercedes gets run over and killed. For ten points, Sherman McCoy goes from Master of the Universe to professional defendant in this 1987 Tom Wolfe novel.
The protagonist's mistress Maria is illegally re-renting an apartment, and her husband Arthur dies in a restaurant too expensive to call an ambulance in.
The {Bonfire of the Vanities}