β Joseph Wambaugh
π Fiction
π
2010
π en-GB
β 199 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Hollywood Hills
β Scribed by Joseph Wambaugh
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316134627
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy.
LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancΓ©e, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while they're away.
Also minding the mansion is Raleigh Dibble, a hapless ex-con trying to put the past behind him. Raleigh is all too happy to be set up for the job--as butler-cum-watchdog--by Nigel Wickland, Leona's impeccably dressed art dealer. What Raleigh doesn't realize is that under the natty clothes and posh accent, Nigel has a nefarious plan: two paintings hanging on the mansion's walls will guarantee...
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