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Originally Posted by dmacmart
A man who lives alone and normally keeps to himself, is just about to start his vacation. He receives a letter (first of several I think) which threatens to kill someone in his family - a niece I think , who he was not close to - if he didn't kill himself (I think that's the threat). He lives in NY I think and communicates with the threatener via classified adds in a paper, I think the NY Times. There was a murder in the subway, a major fire, there are some homeless person(s) involved I think.
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The book you are looking for may possibly be A Dog's Ransom, by Patricia Highsmith. Some of the details you mention don't sound familiar, but it is about a man, who is living in New York. He begins to receive threatening letters from an anonymous source. I don't remember it particularly well, but it may be the one you mean.