Little Elvises / Timothy Hallinan 347 p. Co-worker recommendation

Junior Bender is the person crooks turn to when they cannot go to the cops and they need a private investigator.  As a competent burglar, he is familiar with the territory.  This time Bender is intimidated by Vinnie DiGaudio, an aging music industry tycoon, to clear DiGaudio of the murder of a rather offensive tabloid journalist.  Digaudio made his fortune discovering 1960's era singing sensations collectively known as "Little Elvises".  It doesn't help DiGaudio's case that he had threatened to kill the journalist.   The deeper Bender digs, the stranger DiGaudio's life looks.  Complications pile on as the dead journalist's widow takes an strong personal interest in Bender, his landlady begs him to find her missing daughter, and both his ex- and his 13-year old daughter have new boyfriends.