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Bullet For A Star

Toby Peters Mysteries Series, Book 1

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Bullet For A Star

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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The first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: "Nostalgic fun" (Publishers Weekly).

Hollywood, 1940: It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private detective - missing persons and bodyguard work, mostly - but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him.

Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it's a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer 5,000 dollars and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated.

Soon it's up to Peters to clear Flynn's name, following a twisted trail that surprisingly leads to the set of The Maltese Falcon, involving Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. As real-life PI Toby Peters meets Bogie's Sam Spade, he doesn't fall prey to being star-struck. But he may still fall prey to a killer.

©1977 Stuart M. Kaminksy (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Historical Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators Crime
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A little gem of a find. Based in Hollywood in the 1940's. With Erroll Flynn in trouble. But he is if anything a side show. The main character is a hapless and unlucky gumshoe detective. Who is shot beaten and battered, but has a great funny turn of phrase. The book is well read and much too short. highly recommended

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