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You Bet Your Life (Paperback)
Series: Toby Peters Mysteries, 3
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As a hard-boiled Hollywood PI enlists Al Capone's help to save the
Marx Brothers, Kaminsky "makes the totally wacky possible" (The
Washington Post). It's 1941 and the Marx Brothers' first movie for
MGM, Go West, has the country in stitches. But now Chico Marx is
worried he's going to need stitches when he receives a severed ear
in the mail--a simple message from a Chicago bookie who wants
$120,000, or else. Chico is baffled because, although he loves to
gamble, he's never made a bet in Chicago. Desperate, he turns to
the king of Hollywood, Louis B. Mayer, who puts in a call to Toby
Peters. A Hollywood private detective who's proven himself adept at
keeping scandals out of the tabloids, Peters flies to Florida for
an interview with Al Capone, deposed lord of the Chicago
underworld. The retired bootlegger's mind has gone soft, and he
doesn't know anything about Chico's bookie, but he suggests Peters
speak to his brother. With Scarface's good word as an introduction,
the PI heads to Chicago. But it will take more than a good sense of
humor to keep Groucho, Harpo, and especially Chico from getting
axed. Edgar Award-winner Stuart Kaminsky's "Toby Peters series was
a delight. They were written with more than a dash of humor and
featured a variety of improbable real-life characters, ranging from
the Marx Brothers to Judy Garland" (Library Journal).
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