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Joseph Teller


Born
New York City, The United States
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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Joseph Teller is a pen name of Joseph Teller Klempner, and he is also published as Joseph T. Klempner

Joseph Teller was born and raised in New York City. He graduated in 1961 from the College of Wooster in Ohio and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1964. He returned to New York City, where he was admitted to the bar in 1965, but spent three years as an agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (the precursor of the Drug Enforcement Administration), doing undercover work. For the next 35 years, he worked as a criminal defense attorney, representing murderers, drug dealers, thieves and at least one serial killer. When New York State restored the death penalty in the nineties, Teller was one of a select group of lawyers given s ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 1,014 ratings · 147 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
The Tenth Case (Jaywalker, #1)
3.70 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Bronx Justice (Jaywalker, #2)
3.70 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Depraved Indifference (Jayw...
3.94 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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Guilty as Sin (Jaywalker, #5)
4.03 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Overkill (Jaywalker, #4)
3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Joseph Teller A Jaywalker C...
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Series by Joseph Teller

The Tenth Case Bronx Justice Depraved Indifference Overkill Guilty as Sin
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“But sometimes one out of three can be good enough.”
― Joseph Teller, The Tenth Case
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“But evidently it wasn’t meant to be. When it unraveled, it unraveled in a hurry.”
― Joseph Teller, The Tenth Case
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“When it happened, it happened quietly, with no fanfare.”
― Joseph Teller, The Tenth Case
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