by StuartM.Kaminsky (Author)
Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters - who has played sleuth to such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothers, Bette Davis, Mae West and Charlie Chaplin - now finds himself working for Cary Grant. The assignment seems simple enough - Grant merely wants Toby to deliver a package and pick up an envelope at Elysian Park in the middle of the night. But at the critical moment of the exchange, a shot rings out and Toby finds himself with a corpse on his hands, a lump on his head, grass in his mouth and a dying man's words - the name George Hall - on his mind. Now in pursuit of a murderer, Toby and Cary Grant follow a trail of clues that leads them to a second dead body, a nest of Nazi sympathisers, and finally to a nighttime confrontation with a determined and well-armed killer on the grounds of an estate at the edge of Laurel Canyon. As always, Toby can count on the aid of his friends: a melancholy dentist; a huge wrestler-turned-poet; a suave, multilingual, Swiss little person; and Mrs Irene Plaut, Toby's daffy but dogged landlady. All four lend Toby their dubious talents in a riotous plot that brings the hapless private eye and unflappable Cary Grant to a genuinely cliffhanging climax.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Orion
Published: 04 Sep 2003
ISBN 10: 0752856014
ISBN 13: 9780752856018
Book Overview: Edgar Award winning author Great reviews for the Toby Peters mystery series: 'Kaminsky has such a good time writing, and he so loves the period, that the reader is swept along willy-nilly' New York Times Book Review 'Makes the totally wacky possible... Peters is an unblemished delight' Washington Post Book World 'Kaminsky's blending of fact with fiction is altogether delightful' Penthouse 'Reminiscent of Chandler' Publishers Weekly