Most Popular Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of The Devil Met a Lady (2011), The Fala Factor (2012), The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep (2001), Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express (2001), Deluge (2007).

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The Devil Met a Lady

release date: Dec 13, 2011
The Devil Met a Lady
Hired as a bodyguard for diva Bette Davis, this wisecracking Hollywood PI better fasten his seat belt, it’s going to be a bumpy night. Bette Davis has three words to describe her hotel hideaway: “What a dump!” After two days locked in a rented room with the acid-tongued actress, private eye Toby Peters is starting to feel like he’s her husband—instead of Arthur Farnsworth—and he wants a divorce. The diva’s real hubby—an aeronautics engineer with a head full of government secrets and a gang of blackmailers on his trail—has hired Peters to keep Bette safe from kidnappers. But when thugs burst through the hotel room door, it’s almost a relief. Almost . . . Because Peters still has a job to do. And to rescue the snatched star, he needs to crack a Nazi spy ring while at the same time keeping a bit of indiscreet evidence involving Bette and Howard Hughes from falling into the wrong hands . . . “For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner [Stuart M.] Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun” in the Toby Peters mysteries. “The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek” (Publishers Weekly).

The Fala Factor

release date: Apr 10, 2012
The Fala Factor
With “shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett,” a 1940s Los Angeles private eye must recover FDR’s kidnapped dog (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Working in Hollywood, private eye Toby Peters has met a lot of phonies. But his newest case concerns a four-legged faker who threatens the fate of the free world. A few classy dames have crossed the detective’s doorstep, but none can touch the hem of the dress of the First Lady herself, Eleanor Roosevelt, who’s come to him on a matter of top-secret national security. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Roosevelt has developed a terrible suspicion. She thinks the president’s sprightly Scottish terrier, Fala, has been kidnapped and replaced by an imposter, and she wants Peters to find the real rover—for without him, all may be lost. As usual, the First Lady is right. Peters learns that the presidential pooch is the linchpin in a fiendish plot against the White House. Fortunately, this old detective has learned some new tricks, and he has no intention of rolling over and playing dead. Featuring a cameo by Buster Keaton, this Toby Peters mystery is further proof that Edgar Award–winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky “has a delightfully original mind enriching—rather than borrowing from—an old literary form” (Los Angeles Times).

The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep

release date: May 15, 2001
The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep
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.

Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Deluge

release date: May 22, 2007
Deluge
Days and nights of heavy spring rain threaten to cripple New York City. Neighborhoods are experiencing periodic blackouts. People have been reported electrocuted by fallen power lines. Flooding of some subway lines has stopped trains in their tracks. And in the midst of the deluge, the CSI team has three cases to solve. Mac Taylor and Don Flack are on the trail of the perpetrator of a string of grisly murders with one thing in common: initials carved into the victims'' bodies. When an unusual connection is found between the victims'' lives, Mac realizes the killer isn''t finished -- not by a long shot. Lindsay Monroe and Danny Messer investigate the death of a teacher at an exclusive Manhattan private school. The victim seems like everyone''s favorite teacher on the surface -- but they soon uncover a darker secret lurking beneath. Stella Bonasera and Sheldon Hawkes are on-site at a suspicious building collapse when shifting rubble traps Hawkes in a deep pit with a mysterious stranger. Tensions rise as their oxygen starts to run out.... The intrepid members of New York''s crack forensic team must race against time and the elements to bring three very different criminals to justice.

The Final Toast

release date: Jan 01, 2008
The Final Toast
"The Edgar Prize-winning author Kaminsky tells the tale of one of literature''s most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes. In a witty, imaginative story filled with twists and unexpected surprises, Detective Holmes unravels a murder only to find himself the unwilling target of the killer-at-large. Along with the aid of his loyal and inquisitive companion, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes uses his masterful power of deduction to make a nebulous situation seem "simply elementary." The Final Toast is an exciting new take on the classic characters of fiction we know and love, and its ending will please even the most savvy mystery connoisseurs"--Publisher''s website.

A Biographical Study of the Career of Donald Siegel and an Analysis of His Films

Sex, Lies and Private Eyes

release date: Mar 01, 2009
Sex, Lies and Private Eyes
When it comes to sex, lies often follow... and in the dark heart of the city, death can be the ultimate payback! Moonstone Books, publisher of fine books and comics since 1995, is proud to present this landmark collection of all-new, original noir stories with the theme of ''sex for sale''. Written by some of today''s top crime writers, Sex, Lies and Private Eyes features a stunning cast of legendary characters from the best mysteries of the past and present, including Alo Nudger and Fred Carver (John Lutz), Blackshirt (Adi Tantimedh), Candy Matson (Christine Matthews), Domino Lady (Gail Mcabee), Jack Hagee, PI, Kolchak: the Night Stalker and Lai Wan (CJ Henderson), The Envoy (Gary Phillips), Johnny Dollar (David Tischman), Mr. Keen (Mike Bullock), Pat Novak (Steven Grant), Sherlock Holmes (Loren D. Estleman), The Silencers (Fred Van Vliet), The Maze Agency (Mike W. Barr), Toby Peters (Stuart Kaminsky), and Truxton Lewis (Robert Randisi).

Chico, banco, bobo

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Chico, banco, bobo
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.

Man Who Walked Like a Bear

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Man Who Walked Like a Bear
With his wife in the hospital, Porfiry Rostnikov tries to protect Moscow from chaos. Porfiry and Sarah Rostnikov have been in love since the end of World War II, growing old together as the Soviet Union lurches towards modernity. Sarah is recovering from a brain operation, her police inspector husband at her side, when a bearlike man staggers into her hospital room. Hulking, naked, and insensible, he is about to leap out the window when Rostnikov talks him off the ledge. But before the orderlies take him away, the giant whispers a secret to the investigator. Someone has been stealing from the.

Man Who Shot Lewis Vance

release date: Jan 01, 2015

Dog Who Bit a Policeman

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Dog Who Bit a Policeman
An international gang war chooses Moscow as its battlefield. Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has adapted well to life without Communism. But under the Soviets, blood feuds were pursued in the dark halls of bureaucracy, and now they take place in the streets. An international drug ring has chosen Moscow as its next port of call, and the only thing standing in its way is the budding Russian mob, headed by a young man whose brutality is matched only by his madness. In a gang war of this magnitude, no civilian is safe. As Rostnikov tries to stop an army of two-legged killers, his coh.

Few Minutes Past Midnight

release date: Jan 01, 2015

The Big Silence

release date: Jan 01, 2001
The Big Silence
Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, investigate the kidnapping of the son of a federal witness.

You Bet Your Life

You Bet Your Life
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.

Catch a Falling Clown

Catch a Falling Clown
The electrocution of an elephant and Emmett Kelly''s fears for life bring private eye Toby Peters into the circus and into confrontation with a gorilla, a snake-charmer, an angry elephant, and a perplexing witness named Alfred Hitchcock

Pour qui sonne le clap

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Pour qui sonne le clap
" 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

Sangue e rubli

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Generi cinematografici americani

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Les vacances de Rostnikov

release date: Jan 01, 1994

La loi de Lieberman

release date: Jan 01, 1999
La loi de Lieberman
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.

Le caméléon rouge

release date: Feb 01, 1994

Du sang et des roubles

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Du sang et des roubles
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...

Le Flic qui venait du froid

release date: Feb 01, 1994

The Rockford Files: The Green Bottle

release date: Apr 15, 1999
The Rockford Files: The Green Bottle
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.

Buried Caesers

release date: Jan 01, 1990

Il est minuit, Charlie Chaplin

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Il est minuit, Charlie Chaplin
Tobias Leo Pevsner, alias Toby Peters, détective privé à Hollywood, est contacté par Charlie Chaplin en personne. Ce dernier a reçu des menaces de la part d''un individu armé. Pour farfelues qu''elles paraissent, elles sont prises au sérieux par l''acteur qui, en ces années de guerre, compte plus d''ennemis que d''amis en Amérique. Avec l''aide de quelques alliés incongrus mais fidèles, Toby finira par confondre un criminel particulièrement manipulateur. En dépit de la noirceur d''une époque marquée par les restrictions et la chasse aux communistes, Kaminsky impose une irrésistible tonalité burlesque à cette histoire où il nous livre une version apocryphe des origines de Monsieur Verdoux.

Froid mortel à Manhattan

release date: Jan 01, 2006
Froid mortel à Manhattan
Le corps d''un homme est retrouvé dans l''ascenseur d''un immeuble du quartier bourgeois de l''Upper East Side, à Manhattan. Mac Taylor et Aiden Burn sont chargés de l''enquête. Mais le meurtrier n''a laissé ni arme du crime, ni trace ADN derrière lui. Serait-ce un crime parfait ? Pendant ce temps, à quelques encablures de là, Stella Bonasera et Danny Messer enquêtent sur le meurtre d''un témoin, une femme théoriquement sous protection de la police. Les hommes censés la protéger assurent que la victime a passé la nuit dans une chambre d''hôtel fermée à double tour... Comment le meurtrier s''y est-il pris ? Au plus profond de l''hiver, l''équipe du CSI de New York est chargée de réunir toutes les preuves possibles pour résoudre deux crimes mystérieux commis au cœur de New York, la ville qui ne dort jamais.

Passage de minuit

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Passage de minuit
" Je m''appelle Lew Fonesca. Je vis à Sarasota, en Floride, où je suis arrivé voilà un peu plus de trois ans, après que ma femme eut succombé à un " accident " de voiture avec délit de fuite. " Accident " est entre guillemets, car la police n''a pas retrouvé le chauffard.... Une fois toutes les larmes de mon corps versées, j''ai repris le volant de ma Toyota modèle 1989 sur le parking du cimetière et j''ai roulé. Cap au sud, direction l''oubli et la pointe de la Floride... Mon véhicule a rendu l''âme sur le parking du Dairy Queen à Sarasota... " A Sarasota, la Midnight Pass est un enjeu financier et immobilier majeur, particulièrement pour les propriétaires sur les Keys. Alors que le conseil du comté doit trancher d''une manière décisive sur l''éventuelle réouverture de cette passe, un de ses membres disparaît mystérieusement. Lew Fonesca, fort de sa réputation de retrouver les disparus, est démarché par le révérend Wilkens. Parce qu''il faut se forcer à vivre malgré tout, - c''est en tout cas le conseil de sa psy, il accepte de se charger de remettre la main sur lui. De retour à son bureau, il tombe sur un individu qui le supplie de rechercher sa femme et ses enfants qui se sont évaporés dans la nature. Pour quelqu''un qui évite le plus possible les contacts avec ses contemporains, notre anti-héros dépressif frise la surcharge de travail ! Fonesca va devoir résoudre ces deux affaires avec l''aide de son fidèle ami Ames et de la douce Sally. Quand les cadavres et les tentatives de meurtre contre sa personne se multiplient, Fonesca se dit qu''encore une fois, il est dedans jusqu''au cou.
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