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Herbie's Game

Hallinan, Timothy. Book - 2014 Mystery 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Call Number: Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can turn to to solve his problem is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks. But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles's list: the signature is too obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior's burglar mentor and second father--and when Junior seeks him out to discuss the missing list, he finds Herbie very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing things about Herbie's hidden past. He has to ask himself how much of the life he's lived for the past twenty years has been of his own making, and how much of it was actually Herbie's game"-- Provided by publisher.

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SERIES
A Junior Bender mystery.



PUBLISHED
New York City : Soho Crime, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 387 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781616954291
1616954299

SUBJECTS
Bender, Junior -- (Fictitious character)
Thieves -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Humorous fiction.