Poor Butterfly, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Poor Butterfly, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Poor Butterfly
A Toby Peters Mystery

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2014


Synopsis

A killer terrorizes the San Francisco opera, and the maestro calls in Los Angeles detective Toby Peters to investigate—which might just set him up to be the next victim.

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

Goodreads review by James on May 01, 2021

It's 1942 and someone's trying to sabotage the grand reopening of the San Francisco Metropolitan Opera House, with it's choice of "Madame Butterfly" during war with Japan. One man has already died, but the police consider it an accident, with a mysterious singing killer, moving in the shadows. Toby i......more

Goodreads review by Peter on October 10, 2016

A fun quick read......more

Goodreads review by Dave on February 14, 2018

Toby and his usual crew (delusional dentist, little person and custodian poet) solve another (multiple) murder, this time on the road in war-time San Francisco for Leopold Stokowski. These are so much fun and easy to read. Good period piece.......more

Goodreads review by Jon on April 10, 2021

A Toby Peters story with a few more twists and turns than usual. Toby drives up to San Francisco to take care of an unusual problem at the SF Opera. Mr. Kaminsky hit his stride a few books prior to this one in the series. He's still in the groove.......more

Goodreads review by Willie on September 15, 2021

Another quick Toby Peters mystery, this time featuring Leopold Stokowski, and taking place in San Francisco. As always, Toby escapes at the last moment, Toby escapes jeopardy, and, along with his friends captures the villain and is the hero.......more