He Done Her Wrong, Stuart M. Kaminsky
He Done Her Wrong, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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He Done Her Wrong
A Toby Peters Mystery

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2013


Synopsis

Following the trail of Mae West’s scandalous—and missing—memoirs soon leads P.I. Peters into the midst of murder and mayhem.

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.


Reviews

The Toby Peters cases tread heavily on nostalgia. In this edition, you might have to research the career of Chester Morris or the contents of a Whiz bar. I have no problem with that. Nor do I have any problems with making Mae West the feature star of the tale. She is at a difficult place in her caree......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 08, 2015

I didn't care for this too much. He's a born loser & while it was amusing at first, it just got old & too predictable. By the half way mark, I knew what was going to happen too often. I started skipping ahead & didn't miss a thing. On the plus side, the characters were quirky - a lot of old time refe......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 06, 2011

Kaminsky's detective, Toby Peters is quite a character. He is a hard boiled PI, just barely scraping by financially, but once he takes a case, he is determined with a capital "D". Peters gets knocked to the mat quite a bit and always gets up before the ten count and keeps coming. When asked how he c......more

Goodreads review by Libby on December 31, 2015

I used to read the Toby Peters books back when they first came out. I loved the language, the incredible details, and of course the celebrities included in the stories. Found this one at the book exchange we have at work and I was pleased to find it was just as good a read, all these years later.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on June 15, 2017

It's 1942 in Los Angeles and our hero Toby is not the usual broke, hard-headed, wise cracking PI. Actually, he is those things but Toby is on the upper side of middle age, lives in a boarding house, has a tiny office inside a dentist's office and his old Buick gives up the ghost when he tries to pur......more