Smart Moves, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Smart Moves, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Smart Moves
A Toby Peters Mystery

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2014


Synopsis

A plot to murder Albert Einstein is uncovered, and Toby Peters is hired to solve the mystery. But if Einstein can’t figure it out, what chance does Toby have?

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 F.R.

Maybe it’s the New York setting (Peters is at his best in LA), or maybe it’s because it’s too easy to guess whodunnit, but this is only a passable entry in the series.......more

Goodreads review by James

Early 40s America. Gumshoe Toby Peters is hanging out a window, holding onto his "partner", the unsanitary dentist, Shelly Minck, and waiting for the bullet that ends it all. Then he tells us how we got here. A plot to murder Einstein, involving Nazi assassins, FBI Agents called out of retirement by......more

Goodreads review by K

Another enjoyable yarn by Suart Kaminsky. I enjoy his writing and found this to be another good one in the Toby Peters series. Some of his others have been better, but this was plenty funny and had Kaminsky's typical banter between his protagonist and an interesting array of characters, including Dr......more

Goodreads review by Dave

Absolutely delightful, it's 1942 and our dogged investigator is in New York this time, trying to protect his client or clients, Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson from suspected Nazis. Shootings, stabbings, the help, he could use their help.......more