Description: Few people are brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood's scariest mob boss turned movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, burglar Junior Bender is terrified when he's hauled in for a meeting. Dressler wants Junior to solve a crime that was committed more than seventy years ago, when an old friend of his, then-starlet Dolores La Marr, had her career destroyed by some compromising photos. Dressler wants justice for Dolores and the career she never had. Junior thinks the whole thing is crazy, but he can't say no to Dressler, so he starts digging. What he finds is that some vendettas never diethey only get more dangerous.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"The Fame Thief has everything I've come to expect in a Hallinan novel: indelible, complex characters, fantastic plot, and moments of hold-your-breath suspense."
-- "Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author"