New Releases by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Private eye Jim Rockford receives a visit from a girl claiming to be his daughter and she has proof. The girl says her mother, the woman with whom Rockford had an affair, is missing and may have been murdered by her husband. Rockford investigates.

Moscow''s top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There''s Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There''s young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there''s Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?

Rockford is looking forward to a quiet day of lazing around the beach and evading the debt collectors. Last month''s bills were covered by a generous fee from a wealthy client for finding an antique green bottle, and an eccentric old lady with a sob story about a lost cat is handing him a big check to cover his expenses for next month. But Rockford''s luck may run out when he is visited by the Pulp Fiction look-alikes who want to rearrange his anatomy. And then he''s going to find out that the case of the green bottle wasn''t quite as simple as it looked.

Kaminsky''s series character Toby Peters appears with John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Lewis Valance and D.W. Griffith in Busted Blossoms. Hidden finds a determined detective searching for the truth when a teenage boy is suspected of savagely killing his family. In Drop Number One, who can tell who is crazy and who is not when three men break out of an insane asylum?

Grâce à Stuart Kaminsky la nostalgie n''a pas changé. C''est avec un plaisir chaque fois renouvelé que l''on retrouve au fil des aventures de Toby Peters, l''ex-flic au grand cœur tourné enquêteur privé pour cause d''indépendance d''esprit, le Hollywood de la grande époque et ses monstres sacrés en proie à quelques difficultés passagères intimes ou publiques. Après Errol Flynn, Mae West, Bette Davis et Gary Cooper - entre autres -, c''est au secours des Marx Brothers que notre intrépide héros au dos cassé va se porter cette fois-ci.

Chicago n''accorde décidément pas de repos à Abe Lieberman, flic de 60 ans aux méthodes bien singulières. Alors qu''il prend la place de commerçants coréens pour faire échouer des opérations de racket, le Temple de Mir Shavot, dont sa femme est présidente, est saccagé et la Torah de velours bleu dérobée. Skinheads, terroristes arabes ? Les pistes sont nombreuses et Lieberman va devoir infiltrer ces différents groupes grâce à ses indics et à son associé Haranan. Les choses se compliquent quand trois étudiants arabes sont sauvagement assassinés et que la famille de Lieberman est menacée par les racketteurs coréens... Une intrigue passionnante qui nous plonge dans un Chicago cosmopolite avec ses haines et ses conflits d''intérêts.

A classic Rockford case involves retrieving stolen property, locating a cat for an eccentric, wealthy old lady, thugs out to rearrange Rockford''s anatomy, and a hunt that turns deadly when a beautiful woman in search of Hollywood fame turns up missing.

Lors de la réunion de service présidée par Chien-Loup - plus connu en tant que colonel Snitkovoy - l''inspecteur en chef Rostnikov annonce l''ouverture de quatre nouvelles enquêtes. Un enlèvement, le meurtre d''un ivrogne, une fusillade de rue et une saisie d''objets d''art. Autant d''occasions pour Craig Hamilton, agent du FBI en stage au Bureau des Enquêtes Spéciales, de s''initier aux méthodes d''investigation de la police russe. Mais aussi de se frotter à la Russie d''aujourd''hui, où la loi n''a plus guère de valeur et où chacun essaie de survivre à sa manière, à coups de pots-de-vin, de mensonges, de pierres. Si certains y gagnent une aisance matérielle, la plupart y perdent leur intégrité, leurs biens mal acquis... ou leur vie. A l''est, du nouveau pour l''inspecteur-chef Rostnikov, assisté par un ancien adversaire d''hier...

"TERRIFIC . . . EXCEPTIONAL." --Detroit Free Press Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce, blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and a trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins the tax police in a raid on a house filled with priceless Czarist treasures--which disappear the following day without a trace. And relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will not rest until he finds the Mafia beasts who killed the only woman he has ever loved in a bloody drive-by shooting--and Karpo intends to punish them his way. . . . "Deeply absorbing, full of character nuance and irony . . . Kaminsky''s laconic tone and colorful prose bring [Moscow] and its denizens to life." --The Sunday Herald "Kaminsky excels each time he enters the harshness of post-Cold War Russia." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

" Stuart Kaminsky relance Toby Peters, ce privé qui hante les studios d''Hollywood pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Peters, c''est d''abord un anti-héros toujours fauché mais diablement perspicace, un ex-flic au nez cassé par son grand frère et au dos en compote, obligé de dormir sur une planche de bois et qui se nourrit de céréales, largué par une épouse dont il n''arrive pas à faire le deuil. Un grand gamin qui n''arrivera jamais à devenir adulte et qui erre au milieu d''une bande de solitaires aussi brisés par la vie que sa colonne vertébrale" " Patrice Gagnant, Le Progrès. Traduit de l''américain par Simone Hilling

On a Sunday night in 1942, private eye Toby Peters wakes up in a Los Angeles hotel room with a headache, a corpse on the bed, and John Wayne pointing a pistol between his eyes

Private eye Toby Peters follows boxing as much as the next guy, but he never expected to encounter heavyweight champ Joe Louis this way: covered with blood and standing next to the corpse of Peters'' ex-wife''s husband on a deserted beach! Martin''s.

In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophisticated critical tools of contemporary literary and film analysis to examine popular American television genres. Critical approaches ranging from historical to anthropological to structural and psychoanalytic are clearly presented and then used to analyze a variety of shows including soap operas, police dramas, game shows, and news programs. Throughout the book the authors explore the ways in ehich the genres of popular television regularly viewed by millions are significant on a cultural and social level. These explorations reveal that popular television can be understood as a rich and complex art form. This book will provide the student with a detailed introduction to the art of television criticism.

This novel is set in Chicago, allowing interaction with Mayor Daley and mobsters such as Frank Nitti. The plot involves Toby trying to get Chico Marx out of a situation arisen from gambling debts, which he says are not his.