Hidden and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
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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?Tags
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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 show more 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) show less
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