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by Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stuart M. KaminskySeries:Toby Peters Mysteries #3Publish date:2021-12-28Pages:190
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504069168ISBN-10:1504069161UPC:9781504069168Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:Private InvestigatorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCTHQVFF9S
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).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504069168ISBN-10:1504069161UPC:9781504069168Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:Private InvestigatorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCTHQVFF9S
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.

Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC

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