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White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie
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Not the best Les Norton book....
- By Stuart Menges on 02-11-19
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Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down - it had to happen sooner or later. And it isn’t as if Les Norton will starve. He has money snookered away, he owns his house, and his blue-chip investment - a block of flats in Randwick - must be worth a fortune by now. Except that the place is falling down, the council is reclaiming the land, there’s been a murder in Flat 5, and the tenants are the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson family.
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The Godson
- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble. So what if he was on the run from the IRA? They’d never follow him to Australia… But Les quickly finds himself thrust into an adventure that moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shoot out on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.
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And De Fun Don't Done
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- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
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They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to the US of A, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather. Night club brawls, mafia hitmen, and too many girls called Lori, all in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton, it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to the Caribbean, where Millwood Downie - schoolteacher, historian, and would-be stand-up comic - helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever.
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The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya
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- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Performance
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Story
There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw, fists like hams, and they say the last time he took a tenner from his wallet Henry Lawson blinked at the light. Lethal but loyal, he's always good for a laugh. In this, the third collection of Les Norton adventures, Les gets his boss off the hook. But not without the help of the boy from Binjiwunyawunya. Les then finds himself in a spot of bother in Long Bay Gaol then in a lot more bother on a St. Kilda tram in Melbourne.
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- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Norton's old friend turned out to be the biggest brothel owner in America. Madam to the stars. Through her, Les met Mitzi Moonkiss; he also met the Japanese Yakuza, lesbian geisha girls and every time he put his head out the door some boofhead US Marine was looking for a fight. And these were all the nice people. Somewhere in the middle a crazed serial killer was on the loose with a bayonet. Aloha, Les.
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The Day of the Gecko
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- By: Robert G. Barrett
- Narrated by: Dino Marnika
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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All Les Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life. How he let notorious conman Kelvin Kramer talk him up to Surfers Paradise for five days, Les will never know. He went along expecting some relaxation in the sun, the chance to earn a little money, and possibly a little fresh romance. Les definitely got the earn. He certainly got the girl. But what Norton mainly got in Surfers Paradise was trouble. In a size 40 Double-D cup.
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- Tracey
- 25-09-14
white shoes
Would you listen to White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie again? Why?
yes i like norton and company
What did you like best about this story?
the way norton is sometimes lead to do stupid things and stitching up poor warren
Have you listened to any of Dino Marnika’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
they are about the same as all his performances
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
norton on the coast