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Stuart M. Kaminsky is head of the radio/television/film department at Northwestern University in Illinois. He is also a writer of textbooks, screenplays, and mystery novels. The more popular of his two series of detective novels features Toby Peters. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, the Peters books draw on Kaminsky's knowledge of history and love of film by incorporating characters from the film industry's past in nostalgic mysteries. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (1978), for example, features Judy Garland while Catch a Falling Clown (1982) stars Emmett Kelley as Peters's client and Alfred Hitchcock as a murder suspect. His other critically acclaimed series chronicles the cases of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov. Kaminsky's detailed studies of Russian police procedure combined with aspects of life in Russia have earned the Series an Edgar nomination for Black Knight in Red Square (1984) and the 1989 Edgar Award for A Cold Red Sunrise (1988). Stuart Kaminsky was born in Chicago in 1934 and died in 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Murder on the Yellow Brick Road… (more)
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road 258 copies, 5 reviews
Death of a Dissident 211 copies, 3 reviews
A Cold Red Sunrise 209 copies, 9 reviews
Bullet for a Star 194 copies, 8 reviews
Never Cross a Vampire 157 copies, 6 reviews
Black Knight in Red Square 157 copies, 3 reviews
A Fine Red Rain 135 copies, 4 reviews
The Man Who Walked Like a Bear 123 copies, 3 reviews
People Who Walk in Darkness 121 copies, 5 reviews
You Bet Your Life 114 copies, 7 reviews
Vengeance 114 copies, 4 reviews
A Whisper to the Living 113 copies, 2 reviews
Blood on the Sun 113 copies, 5 reviews
Deluge 111 copies, 4 reviews
He Done Her Wrong 109 copies, 1 review
Rostnikov's Vacation 107 copies, 6 reviews
Red Chameleon 106 copies, 4 reviews
Dead of Winter 105 copies, 6 reviews
Death of a Russian Priest 105 copies, 2 reviews
The Fala Factor 104 copies, 2 reviews
Blood and Rubles 103 copies, 2 reviews
Fall of a Cosmonaut 101 copies, 6 reviews
The Howard Hughes Affair 100 copies, 2 reviews
Lieberman's Folly 99 copies, 2 reviews
The Dog Who Bit a Policeman 97 copies, 3 reviews
Midnight Pass 96 copies, 3 reviews
Hard Currency 92 copies, 2 reviews
Catch a Falling Clown 91 copies, 2 reviews
High Midnight 88 copies, 4 reviews
Always Say Goodbye 86 copies, 4 reviews
Tarnished Icons 84 copies, 1 review
Retribution 83 copies, 1 review
Denial 82 copies, 3 reviews
Bright Futures 81 copies, 2 reviews
Lieberman's Choice 80 copies, 1 review
Buried Caesars 77 copies, 1 review
Down for the Count 75 copies, 2 reviews
Poor Butterfly 75 copies
Mildred Pierced 74 copies, 3 reviews
Smart Moves 71 copies, 1 review
Lieberman's Day 69 copies, 4 reviews
Terror Town 68 copies, 3 reviews
To Catch a Spy 68 copies, 1 review
The Dead Don't Lie 68 copies, 3 reviews
Think Fast, Mr. Peters 66 copies, 2 reviews
A Fatal Glass of Beer 64 copies, 1 review
A Few Minutes Past Midnight 64 copies, 1 review
Lieberman's Law 63 copies
The Last Dark Place 62 copies, 1 review
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance 57 copies, 1 review
Now You See It 50 copies
Show Business Is Murder (Editor) 23 copies
Déluge 1 copy
The Doorbell Rang (Introduction, some editions) 1,304 copies, 29 reviews
The Further Adventures of Batman (Contributor) 327 copies, 3 reviews
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Contributor) 326 copies, 4 reviews
Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Contributor) 272 copies, 7 reviews
Dark Love (Contributor) 245 copies
The Mysterious West (Contributor) 219 copies, 4 reviews
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (Contributor, some editions; Contributor) 192 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (Contributor) 185 copies, 5 reviews
The Further Adventures of the Joker (Contributor) 152 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (Contributor) 152 copies, 3 reviews
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Contributor) 118 copies, 3 reviews
A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (Contributor) 78 copies, 3 reviews
The Ultimate Witch (Contributor) 74 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (Contributor) 67 copies, 1 review
Guilty As Charged (Contributor) 60 copies
Chicago Noir: The Classics (Contributor) 41 copies, 13 reviews
Crème de la Crime (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review
Sex, Lies and Private Eyes (Contributor) 8 copies
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