Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown's
finest It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got
fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's
arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private
detective-missing persons and bodyguard work, mostly-but now his
old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed
the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising
position with a very young girl. Although Flynn insists it's a
fake, the studio is taking no chances. Toby is to deliver the
blackmailer $5,000 and return with the photo negative. It should be
simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way
of making things complicated. Though he isn't impressed by movie
stars, if Toby Peters isn't careful he may end up dying for one.
"Reminiscent of Chandler." -Publishers Weekly "Peters is a good guy
with a sense of humor, and every appearance he makes is a welcome
one." -Booklist "Marvelously entertaining." -Newsday "Kaminsky came
to detective fiction from academia, but the ease of his prose was
anything but academic." -The Guardian "If you like your mysteries
Sam Spade tough, with tongue-in-cheek and a touch of the
theatrical, then the Toby Peters series is just your ticket."
-Houston Chronicle "Kaminsky has a delightfully original mind
enriching-rather than just borrowing from-an old literary form."
-Los Angeles Times "Makes the totally wacky possible . . . Peters
is] an unblemished delight." -The Washington Post Stuart M.
Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction
authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his
youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of
popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After
college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and
biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden
Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell
through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters
novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his
life. Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective,
whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of
a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry
Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction
of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a
hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all,
Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in
2009.
General
Imprint: |
Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Toby Peters Mysteries |
Release date: |
April 2013 |
First published: |
April 2013 |
Authors: |
Stuart M Kaminsky
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
152 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4532-3680-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
1-4532-3680-5 |
Barcode: |
9781453236802 |
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