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Hollywood Hills : a novel / Joseph Wambaugh.

Wambaugh, Joseph. (Author).

Summary:

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 fiancée, 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 them more money than they've ever seen. Everyone's dreams are just within reach--the only problem is, this is Hollywood. A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon Nigel's heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon Hollywood Nate, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316129503
  • ISBN: 031612950X
  • Physical Description: 356 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
Subject: Art dealers > Fiction.
Art thefts > Fiction.
Rich people > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Police > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Police.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Humorous fiction.

Available copies

  • 26 of 27 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 27 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library FIC WAMBAUGH (Text) 36015000349635 Adult Fiction Available -

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