Mystery Writers of America presents show business is murder
Corporate Authors: | Mystery Writers of America. |
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Other Authors: | Kaminsky, Stuart M. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Berkley Prime Crime,
2004.
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Physical Description: |
371 p. ; 22 cm. |
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ISBN: |
0425196526 |
Author Notes: |
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) |