Joe Bender
Art dealer and proprietor of the Bender Gallery, Joe Bender is a friend and business partner of John Halliday, who makes a brief appearance in A Pelican at Blandings. He is 28 years old, has a high voice and wears tortoisesehell spectacles, giving him an appropriately artistic appearance. He inherited the gallery from his father, and struggles to maintain its respectability in the face of fake nude portraits by the famous French artist Claude Robichaux.
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