Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Episode 4: Shirley Temple Is Missing

Episode 4: Shirley Temple Is Missing

In which a bribe is proferred to a desperate man

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Oct 23, 2021
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CHAPTER 8

October 6, 1935

Los Angeles

Toni Oliveri made a good living doing odd jobs. His client list — well, it wasn’t a list because Tony was too smart to commit names to paper — included many famous and a few infamous members of the elite of Los Angeles. Tony’s acquaintances — for that’s what they were, really, acquaintances who knew how to express thei…

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