Think Fast, Mr. Peters, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Think Fast, Mr. Peters, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Think Fast, Mr. Peters
A Toby Peters Mystery

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/06/2014

Synopsis

When he becomes the prime suspect in the shooting death of a Peter Lorre imitator, 1940s PI Toby Peters is determined to find the true killer, before the real Peter Lorre becomes a victim as well.

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 Rob on March 27, 2021

A number of other reviews also recognized this Toby Peters entry as more hilarious than the other hilarious books in the series. I know a lot of writers would write massive content. Heck I've been reading the "William Johnstone" series that consists of many hundreds of books. The array of Kaminsky s......more

Goodreads review by Marisa on September 25, 2017

Anything that makes me laugh this hard has to get five stars. Toby Peters is like Sam Spade, as soon as you tell him not to do something he does it. It also was a clever way for the author to extend the ending but in this case it works! I love the characters(and Im not just refering to them as peopl......more

Goodreads review by Christa on June 03, 2016

Toby Peters is a private detective hired to find Mrs. Sheldon Minck, a dentist's wife who has run off with Peter Lorre. As it turns out, she is really with a Lorre impressionists and the love affair has already gone sour when the impressionist is shot and killed while working on a movie. When a coup......more

Goodreads review by Chuck on December 08, 2020

"Think fast, Mr. Peters" is one in a series of Toby Peters mystery novels. It is about a 50 year old private detective who works in the early 1940's L.A. who often works for well known actors of the era. Peters has a shabby office, lives in a boarding house, has a not always friendly brother who is......more

Goodreads review by Araych on March 22, 2024

Toby Peters #13. It's 1942 in Hollywood and Toby is hired by his friend and office-mate dentist Shelly Minck to find Shelly's wife who has run away with Peter Lorre. Really? Well, it turns out there are lots of guys who sort-of look like Peter Lorre. And pretty soon one of them is shot dead but Toby......more

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