Timothy Hallinan Little Elvises

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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 suspect or his employer.Now Junior is being bullied into proving aging music-industry mogulVinnie DiGaudio is innocent of the murder of a nasty tabloid journalist he'dthreatened to kill a couple times. It doesn't help that the dead journalist'swidow is one pretty lady, and she's trying to get Junior to mix business withpleasure. Just as the investigation is spiraling out of control, Junior'shard-drinking landlady begs him to solve the disappearance of her daughter, whohas gotten involved with a very questionable character. And, worst news of all,both Junior's ex-wife and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Rina, seem to havenew boyfriends. What a mess.