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Stuart M. Kaminsky
Full Series List in Order
An Abe Lieberman Mystery
1 - Lieberman's Folly (Mar-1991)2 - Lieberman's Choice (Jan-1993)
3 - Lieberman's Day (Feb-1994)
4 - Lieberman's Thief (Mar-1995)
5 - Lieberman's Law (Apr-1996)
6 - The Big Silence (Dec-2000)
7 - Not Quite Kosher (Dec-2002)
8 - The Last Dark Place (Dec-2004)
9 - Terror Town (Feb-2006)
10 - The Dead Don't Lie (Aug-2007)
An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery
1 - Snow (Dec-1999)2 - Death of a Dissident (1981)
3 - Black Knight in Red Square (1983)
4 - Red Chameleon (Nov-1985)
5 - A Fine Red Rain (May-1987)
6 - A Cold Red Sunrise (Oct-1989)
7 - The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (Apr-1990)
7 - Rostnikov's Vacation (Oct-1991)
9 - Death of a Russian Priest (Jul-1992)
10 - Hard Currency (Jan-1995)
11 - Blood and Rubles (Jan-1996)
12 - Tarnished Icons (Jul-1997)
13 - The Dog Who Bit a Policeman (Jul-1998)
14 - Fall of a Cosmonaut (Sep-2000)
15 - Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express (Nov-2001)
16 - People Who Walk In Darkness (Aug-2008)
17 - A Whisper to the Living (Jan-2010)
A Lew Fonesca Novel
1 - Vengeance (Sep-1999)2 - Retribution (Dec-2001)
3 - Midnight Pass (Dec-2003)
4 - Denial (Jun-2005)
5 - Always Say Goodbye (Dec-2006)
6 - Bright Futures (Jan-2009)
The Rockford Files
1 - The Green Bottle (Oct-1996)2 - Devil on My Doorstep (Mar-1998)
A Toby Peters Mystery
1 - Bullet for a Star (Jun-1977)2 - Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (Mar-1978)
3 - You Bet Your Life (1979)
4 - The Howard Hughes Affair (1979)
5 - Never Cross a Vampire (Aug-1980)
6 - High Midnight (May-1981)
7 - Catch a Falling Clown (Dec-1981)
8 - He Done Her Wrong (Jan-1983)
9 - The Fala Factor (Jun-1984)
10 - Down for the Count (Mar-1985)
11 - The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance (Jan-1986)
12 - Smart Moves (Mar-1987)
13 - Think Fast, Mr. Peters (Feb-1988)
14 - Buried Caesars (Mar-1989)
15 - Poor Butterfly (May-1990)
16 - The Melting Clock (Dec-1991)
17 - The Devil Met a Lady (Oct-1993)
18 - Tomorrow is Another Day (Feb-1995)
19 - Dancing in the Dark (Jan-1996)
20 - A Fatal Glass of Beer (May-1997)
21 - A Few Minutes Past Midnight (Aug-2001)
22 - To Catch a Spy (Jun-2002)
23 - Mildred Pierced (Jun-2003)
24 - Now You See It (Nov-2004)
Multi-Author Series List
CSI: New York
1 - Dead of Winter (Sep-2005)2 - Blood on the Sun (Apr-2006)
3 - Deluge (May-2007)
Book List in Order: 75 titles
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Bullet for a Star
- Jun-1977
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Hard-boiled Hollywood detective Toby Peters finds himself hobnobbing with the luminaries of the silver screen when someone is littering Tinsel Town with corpses and Peters has to put himself between Errol Flynn--and a bullet. First published in 1977,...
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Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
- Mar-1978
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Someone had murdered a Munchkin. The corpse lay bleeding on the yellow brick road that leads to the land of Oz. Young and frightened starlet, Judy Garland summons private detective Toby Peters to the M.G.M sound stage. His assignment: keep the murder...
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The Howard Hughes Affair
- 1979
- / Historical Mystery
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The papers in this volume focus on two central issues in the philosophy of law, the relationship between law and morality, and crime and punishment. In the essay that gives the title to this volume, it is argued that, although in many legal systems t...
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You Bet Your Life
- 1979
- / Historical Mystery
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Private eye Toby Peters confronts the Miami mob, the Miami police, the Chicago Mafia, and the Chicago police in an effort to keep the Marx Brothers out of the hands of some of the most vicious mobsters in history...
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Never Cross a Vampire
- Aug-1980
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IT'S A BLOODY CRIME Bela Lugosi, America's favorite vampire, is receiving threatening messages, written in blood! No sooner does he ask Toby Peters to find the culprit than another case is tossed at the Hollywood detective -- solving a murder. The...
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Death of a Dissident
- 1981
- / Police Procedural
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THE VICTIMS
An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's own frightened wife. Most troublesome of all, an outspoken dissident, watched closely by the KGB, whose trial had been set for the very next day.
THE WEAPONS
A heavy iron-headed hammer. A ... -
High Midnight
- May-1981
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A forties Hollywood PI does not forsake Gary Cooper: “Like all of Toby [Peters’s] adventures, High Midnight is high entertainment” (The Cincinnati Post). When laconic leading man Gary Cooper needs a detective, he does the sma...
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Catch a Falling Clown
- Dec-1981
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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...
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He Done Her Wrong
- Jan-1983
- / Historical Mystery
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Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae West. In the early days of talking pictures, the greatest sex symbol in Hollywood was the platinum-blonde ...
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Black Knight in Red Square
- 1983
- / Law Enforcement
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A PREMIERE OPPORTUNITY
A Pulitzer-winning American journalist is poisoned to death at the Moscow Film Festival, along with two Soviet businessmen and a Japanese visitor. All the same night. All the same hotel.
PREMEDITATED MAYHEM
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When the Dark Man Calls
- Jun-1983
- / Suspense
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One of Kaminsky's best thrillers, this is a chilling novel of suspense--the story of a woman stalked by a man she knows only by his slow, sinister voice over the telephone. The night her parents were murdered in their sleep, ten-year-old Jeannie awok...
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The Fala Factor
- Jun-1984
- / Historical Mystery
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Hollywood PI Toby Peters looks for a kidnapped dog - with political connections
If he is surprised to find Eleanor Roosevelt waiting for him in his dingy little office, Toby Peters does not show it. Although this is his first time working f...
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Down for the Count
- Mar-1985
- / Historical Mystery
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In this “lively noir mystery,” a 1940s Hollywood private eye tries to clear heavyweight champ Joe Louis and corner a killer (Library Journal). Joe Louis may be the heavyweight champ of the world, but private detective Toby Peters i...
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Exercise in Terror
- Sep-1985
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A woman fights to protect her family when, eight years after her husband’s murder, his killers return
Bittie’s hot dogs are worth waiting for. Outside the hot dog stand one summer afternoon, Maureen sits with her two children in...
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Red Chameleon
- Nov-1985
- / Police Procedural
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This thrilling crime novel features the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko ( San Francisco Examiner ). After a lifetime in service to the Soviet Union, police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov may have found...
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The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance
- Jan-1986
- / Historical Mystery
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Someone’s gunning for John Wayne in this “well-plotted” mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly). Something about Lewis Vance’s story doesn’t add up. The guy claims t...
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Busted Blossoms
- 1986
- / Mystery
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...
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Smart Moves
- Mar-1987
- / Historical Mystery
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Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters is charged, along with FBI agents Spade and Archer, with the dangerous duty of protecting the lives of both Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson from scheming Nazis. Reprint....
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A Fine Red Rain
- May-1987
- / Police Procedural
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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...
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Think Fast, Mr. Peters
- Feb-1988
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In a fun series with “shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett,” a 1940s PI must find out who’s gunning for Peter Lorre (TheSan Diego Union-Tribune). Scaly-voiced and bug-eyed actor Peter Lorre has become one of the mo...
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Buried Caesars
- Mar-1989
- / Historical Mystery
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in “one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series” (Time). It’s September 1942, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur believes he’s got what it takes to...
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A Cold Red Sunrise
- Oct-1989
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One Dead Commissar
At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by a... -
The Man Who Walked Like a Bear
- Apr-1990
- / Law Enforcement
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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 r...
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Poor Butterfly
- May-1990
- / Historical Mystery
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1991, mass market paperback reprint edition, Mysterious Press, NY. 179 pages. Toby Peters finds himself in San Francisco in 1942. He immediately also finds trouble in the world of opera. He investigates a new death when a man falls from a high scaffo...
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Lieberman's Folly
- Mar-1991
- / Police Procedural
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Sixty-year-old Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman is having all the troubles he can handle when Estralda Valdez, a stunning Mexican prostitute, comes to him with a proposition he can't refuse: Estralda will help him with valuable information if h...
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Rostnikov's Vacation
- Oct-1991
- / Law Enforcement
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Inspector Rostnikov is vacationing by the seashore, tending to his recuperating wife and reading American crime novels, when a vacationing fellow officer meets with a mysterious demise. Suddenly, Rostnikov is back at work . . . and on the trail of a ...
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The Melting Clock
- Dec-1991
- / Historical Mystery
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Accompanied by a scholarly dwarf and a wrestler-turned-poet, 1942 Hollywood investigator Toby Peters investigates the disappearance of three of Salvador Dali's paintings from his Carmel, California, retreat...
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Death of a Russian Priest
- Jul-1992
- / Police Procedural
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When Inspector Rostnikov arrives in the town of Arkush with Emil Karpo, the policeman nicknamed the Vampire, he finds a community stunned by the murder of the outspoken Father Merhum. But it is the priest's cryptic last words that make Rostnikov wond...
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Lieberman's Choice
- Jan-1993
- / Law Enforcement
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"Kaminsky gets his details exactly right....Tightly plotted...The best mysteries work on multiple levels, and this one is no exception."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Detective Sergeant Abe Lieberman is about to wake up to every policeman's nightmare--an out... -
The Devil Met a Lady
- Oct-1993
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Trying to make the connection between Bette Davis's third kidnapping and the Third Reich's plans regarding an American superbomber, Hollywood private investigator Toby Peters penetrates a hapless Tinseltown spy ring. Reprint....
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Lieberman's Day
- Feb-1994
- / Police Procedural
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"Beautifully rendered . . . Kaminsky is extraordinarily attuned to the domestic minutiae of his detectives' lives." The New York Times Book Review
Aging Chicago cop Abe Lieberman's day begins with a predawn phone call: his nephew, David, has been ... -
Hard Currency
- Jan-1995
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When a former Russian advisor stands accused of murdering a female citizen in Cuba, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to the former Soviet Unions one-time ally on a criminal investigation-cum-diplomatic mission. With a watchful KGB agent on h...
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Tomorrow is Another Day
- Feb-1995
- / Historical Mystery
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Six years after a murder takes place on the set of "Gone With the Wind," 1940s P.I. Toby Peters returns to the scene to investigate the case, a crime in which Hollywood superstar Clark Gable might be the prime suspect...
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Lieberman's Thief
- Mar-1995
- / Police Procedural
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"OUTSTANDING . . . Another stellar performance, alight with menace and compassion."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Career burglar George "Pitty-Pitty" Patniks plots his crimes down to the tiniest detail, so hitting the suburban Chicago home ... -
Blood and Rubles
- Jan-1996
- / Police Procedural
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"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 ... -
Dancing in the Dark
- Jan-1996
- / Historical Mystery
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In this installment of a 1940s Hollywood detective series, Fred Astaire hires Toby Peters to help him get rid of an incredibly untalented dance student, whose tutelage he has been forced to undertake by her threatening mafioso boyfriend. Luna has ...
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Lieberman's Law
- Apr-1996
- / Police Procedural
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Abe Lieberman, the Chicago PD detective, has never had it easy when it comes to emotional cases, but this time the action is getting a little too close to home. His temple has been vandalized along with four others, and it looks like the vandals have...
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The Green Bottle
- Oct-1996
- / Private Investigator
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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 s...
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A Fatal Glass of Beer
- May-1997
- / Historical Mystery
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W. C. Fields hires private eye Toby Peters to nab the culprit who is robbing him one bank account at a time, but while on the thief's trail, the two find out there is another bad guy who does not want the money, but rather wants both of them dead....
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Tarnished Icons
- Jul-1997
- / Law Enforcement
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"Rostnikov is quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko in Gorky Park."
--San Francisco Examiner
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Devil on My Doorstep
- Mar-1998
- / Private Investigator
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Jim Rockford is in one hell of a mess--the credit companies are after his stuff, his buddy Angel has cooked up another scheme that is a sure thing (sure enough to get them both killed), and he's way behind on everything. When a beautiful young girl s...
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The Dog Who Bit a Policeman
- Jul-1998
- / Police Procedural
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As Russian mafia members begin to be the targets of a series of murders, Inspector Rostnikov investigates, but two undercover agents are closer to the truth as they try to determine who is behind an illegal dog fighting ring in Moscow...
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Mystery in the Sunshine State
- Nov-1999
- / Mystery
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Drawing on the talents of many of Florida's notable writers, Stuart Kaminsky offers an enticing selection of Florida mystery fare. Follow professional investigators and amateur sleuths alike as they steadfastly and patiently uncover one clue at a tim...
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In Search of My Mother
- Apr-2000
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Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...
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Fall of a Cosmonaut
- Sep-2000
- / Police Procedural
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Moscow Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov becomes caught up in three very different cases as he investigates threats against filmmaker Yuri Kriskov, the killing of a scientist investigating psychic phenomena, and the disappearance of cosmonaut Tsimio...
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The Big Silence
- Dec-2000
- / Police Procedural
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Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice: "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom." says The Was...
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A Few Minutes Past Midnight
- Aug-2001
- / Historical Mystery
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Toby Peters is an unusual private eye. He's already cracked cases involving Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothers, John Wayne and Mae West, and now is gumshoeing for the celebrated screen star Charlie Chaplin. Welcome to Hollywood. Chaplin has cause...
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Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
- Nov-2001
- / Police Procedural
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Russian inspectors Karpo and Zelach follow leads in the disappearance of an anti-Semitic rock star that lead them into the seedy, post-punk Moscow underground, while Chief Inspector Rostnikov heads for Vladivostok aboard the Trans-Siberian Express to...
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Retribution
- Dec-2001
- / Private Investigator
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Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just start...
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To Catch a Spy
- Jun-2002
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With a hilarious new Hollywood thriller and in the hire of the urbane, amusing screen star Cary Grant, private investigator Toby Peters continues a madcap career that has cast him as sleuth to such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothe...
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Not Quite Kosher
- Dec-2002
- / Law Enforcement
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An Abe Lieberman mysteryAbe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with h...
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Mildred Pierced
- Jun-2003
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That down-at-the-heels gumshoe Toby Peters again proves to be “an unblemished delight,” as the Washington Post Book World put it, while his creator, Stuart M. Kaminsky, continues to “make the totally wacky possible” in a zany new Hollywood ad...
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Midnight Pass
- Dec-2003
- / Private Investigator
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The third title in Edgar Award-winning author Stuart Kaminsky's Lew Fonesca mystery series, Midnight Pass Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life--and when his car...
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Show Business Is Murder
- Aug-2004
- / Mystery
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These all-new short stories of movies, music, murder, and mayhem by today's brightest talents will take you from vaudeville to Vegas, and make it chillingly clear that in the world of entertainment, if you want to make it, you may have to step on som...
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Now You See It
- Nov-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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Illusion gets more deadly than reality on Toby Peters's twenty-fourth outing from Edgar-winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky. A string of star-studded successes―most recently with Cary Grant in To Catch a Spy and an edgy Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierc...
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The Last Dark Place
- Dec-2004
- / Police Procedural
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Abe Lieberman is a veteran Chicago detective who prefers to use his head and heart more than his gun. He and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, are known on the streets as the Rabbi and thePriest and their commitment to justice is sorely tested everyd...
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Break a Leg
- Aug-2005
- / Suspense
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Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...
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Dead of Winter
- Sep-2005
- / Police Procedural
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Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, lead a team of experts through the gritty and kinetic world of ...
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Behind the Mystery
- Oct-2005
- / Law Enforcement
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The past president of the Mystery Writers of America shares the results of his nationwide interviews with eighteen of the top mystery writers in the country, including Tony Hillerman, Mickey Spillane, Sara Paretsky, Martin Cruz Smith, Sue Grafton, an...
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Terror Town
- Feb-2006
- / Police Procedural
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Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother ju...
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Blood on the Sun
- Apr-2006
- / Police Procedural
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Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated crime scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and Detective Stella Bonasera lead a team of crack forensic experts through the gritty and kinetic world of New York C...
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Always Say Goodbye
- Dec-2006
- / Private Investigator
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Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highw...
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The Dead Don't Lie
- Aug-2007
- / Police Procedural
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Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, are hell or heaven bent on making the mean streets of Chicago just a little safer. As usual they have their hands full. Three prominent members of the Turkish community are all brutally murdered and Lieberma...
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People Who Walk In Darkness
- Aug-2008
- / Police Procedural
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After a very long absence, Forge is delighted to be bringing back one of Edgar award winning Stuart Kaminsky's best loved characters, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest...
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Bright Futures
- Jan-2009
- / Law Enforcement
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Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the Man Who Makes Things Work in Sarasota, is once again faced with cases that try his patience and test his sanity. A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally kille...
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On a Raven's Wing
- Jan-2009
- / Suspense
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Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself. Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working the...
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A Whisper to the Living
- Jan-2010
- / Police Procedural
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A Whisper to the Living continues the adventures (some would say trials and tribulations) of Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union. Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characte...
Award-Winning Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
