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A Valentino Mystery
The Valentino Mysteries: Book #1
- By: Loren D. Estleman
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Description
EnterValentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palaceand uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes asecond discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim’sinfamous Greed. The Los AngelesPolice Department wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing theprecious old film. If Valentino wants to save his find, he has only one choice:solve the murder within seventy-two hours, with the help of his mentor, thenoted film scholar Broadhead, and Fanta, a feisty if slightly flaky young lawstudent. Between a budding romance with a beautiful forensics investigator andvisions of Von Stroheim’s ghost, Valentino’s madcap race to save the flick isas fast and frenetic as a classic screwball comedy.
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The Valentino Mysteries Series

Frames
By: Loren D. Estleman
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
EnterValentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palaceand uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes asecond discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim’sinfamous Greed. The Los AngelesPolice Department wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing theprecious old... Read more »
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Alone
By: Loren D. Estleman
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
At a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo, Hollywood film detective Valentino is having fun until the host, a hotshot developer named Rankin, tells Valentino about a certain letter from Garbo to his late wife. She and Garbo had been … close. Such a letter is of great interest to a film archivist like Valentino, but the plot... Read more »
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