The Fame Thief, Timothy Hallinan
The Fame Thief, Timothy Hallinan
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The Fame Thief
A Junior Bender Mystery

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2013

Synopsis

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, Hollywoods scariest mob boss turned movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is quaking in his boots when Dresslers 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 cant help but think the whole thing is a little crazy. After all, its been seventy years. Even if someone did set Dolores up for a fall from grace, theyre probably long dead now. But he cant say no to Irwin Dresslerno one can, reallyso he starts digging. What he finds is that some vendettas never die; they only get more dangerous.

About Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on July 05, 2019

This is my second Junior Bender book, having recently read Crashed. It fits the bill if you are hankering for a load of comical phrasing, outrageously funny characters and action, and in this case mixed with 1950's Hollywood movers and shakers of the criminal kind.......more

Goodreads review by Aristotle on June 26, 2022

Stars in her eyes An 80 something year-old ex Hollywood starlet wants to know why she was framed to look like a whore of Babylon back in the 1950s. A so so plot with colorful characters. Early Hollywood predators that make Harvey Weinstein look like a gentleman, I can imagine the hell these young girls......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 22, 2013

My very grateful thanks to Soho, for my copy of this wonderful book. The Fame Thief might be, in the author's words, an ode to "all the beautiful and not so beautiful girls everywhere who lose their way in the world without stumbling over anyone kind." We're back in Hollywood territory once again as......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 02, 2014

Reading Tim Hallinan's THE FAME THIEF, I feel incredibly smart, in on the joke, until the ham-fisted realization smacks me upside the head that I didn't write it. Then the second half of the one-two punch lands: I'll probably never write anything this clever, witty or just plain good. The Junior Bend......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

Along with Carl Hiassen, Timothy Hallinan is among Donald E. Westlake’s closest successors in the narrow genre of comic crime novels. To date, Hallinan has written six books in the Junior Bender series that feature a brilliant thief who doubles as a private investigator — for criminals. Like Westlake......more

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