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The Fame Thief
A Junior Bender Mystery
The Junior Bender Mysteries: Book #3
By Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by Peter Berkrot / 9 hours 17 minutes
The highly anticipated, laugh-out-loud third installment in the fan-favorite Junior Bender mysteries
There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss turned movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler’s henchmen haul him in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to solve a crime he believes was committed more than seventy years ago, when an old friend of his, once-famous starlet Dolores La Marr, had her career destroyed after compromising photos were taken of her at a Las Vegas party. Dressler wants justice for Dolores and the shining career she never had.
Junior can’t help but think the whole thing is a little crazy. After all, it’s been seventy years. Even if someone did set Dolores up for a fall from grace, they’re probably long dead now. But he can’t say no to Irwin Dressler—no one can, really—so he starts digging. What he finds is that some vendettas never die; they only get more dangerous.
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Crashed
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing Junior Bender, the favorite burglar turned private investigator of Hollywood crooks
Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, he’s never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey... Read more »
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Little Elvises
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Junior Bender is back to untangle one of the weirdestmysteries in Tinseltown.
LA burglar Junior Bender has, unfortunately, developed areputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate partabout this is that, regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someonedangerous is going to be unhappy with him—either his... Read more »
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The Fame Thief
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated, laugh-out-loud third installment in the fan-favorite Junior Bender mysteries
There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss turned movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dressler’s henchmen haul him... Read more »
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Herbie’s Game
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s everyday business when Wattles, the San FernandoValley’s top “executive crook,” sets up a hit. He establishes a chain ofcriminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring thatthe hitter doesn’t know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his officesafe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper listing the... Read more »
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King Maybe
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world’s rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, Junior realizes the danger is far from over. He’s gotten himself on the wrong side of a man whose name is synonymous with violence, and to save his... Read more »
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Fields Where They Lay
By: Timothy Hallinan
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fast-talking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and ('tis the season) murder.
The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior Bender, divorced father of one and burglar... Read more »
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| Author | Timothy Hallinan |
| Narrator | Peter Berkrot |
| ISBN | 9781481594042 |
| Length | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Publication date | July 2, 2013 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Libro.fm rank | #180,695 Overall |
| Genre rank | #14,238 in Mystery & Thriller |