Book cover for Runaway Man: A Mystery by David Handler

Runaway Man

A Mystery

2013 Released
255 Pages
4-5 Hours
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Minotaur BooksISBN 9781250020475

A missing teen leads a baby-faced private eye into the dark heart of New York City in the Edgar Award-winning author's "auspicious and amusing debut"  (Publishers Weekly). Benji Golden works in his family's struggling detective agency above a twenty-four-hour diner. Golden Legal Services was started by Benji's hero-cop father and is now run by his mother, who used to be the only Jewish pole dancer in New York City. Benji—who is exactly one quarter-inch shy of five-foot-six, weighs a buck thirty-seven, and answers to the nickname "Bunny"—specializes in tracking down teen runaways. But when a Park Avenue lawyer shows up offering a job and lots of money, Benji finds himself chasing after some serious trouble. College senior Bruce Weiner has just inherited a considerable fortune. He's also just gone missing. One murder later, Benji is on a dangerous investigation that will take him to the highly secretive core of the most powerful city on earth.

David Handler

David Handler has written eleven novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, neurotic basset hound, Lulu, including the Edgar- and American Mystery Award-winning The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald. His other series include the Berger/Mitry franchise and two novels featuring private eye Benji Golden. David was a member of the original writing staff that created the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Kate and Allie, and has continued to write extensively for television and films on both coasts. He lives in a 200-year-old carriage house in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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