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Buried Caesars

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery / Thriller
Unabridged   6.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 07/01/2014

Buried Caesars

A Toby Peters Mystery

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Digital Download ISBN:9781622311125

Summary

Toby Peters joins forces with a famous crime writer to save the top general in America from career-ending scandal.

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Product Description

The uniformed man standing before Toby Peters is General Douglas MacArthur, a soldier who considers himself the only man who can defeat the Japanese. But though he may be all-powerful in the South Pacific, today he is in Los Angeles with a problem only a detective can solve. The general has an eye on a postwar promotion to the White House, and an aide has stolen his war chest, his donor list, and a handful of embarrassing private letters. To get them back, Toby may need some help. Lucky for him, he’s just met Dashiell Hammett, one of the finest crime novelists of all time. Dodging his mistress while he’s waiting to rejoin the army, Dash needs amusement and thinks Toby’s case sounds like a lark.

In fact, the assignment proves dangerous. Toby isn’t a soldier, but he soon finds he just might end up dying at a general’s whim nonetheless.

Reviews/Praise

“Voice-over actor Bowlby is a smart choice for these swift-paced tales ...”
      —Publishers Weekly (August 25, 2014)

“For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun. . . . The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek.”
      —Publishers Weekly

“Marvelously entertaining.”
      —Newsday

“Makes the totally wacky possible. . . . Peters [is] an unblemished delight.”
      —Washington Post

“If you like your mysteries Sam Spade tough, with tongue in cheek and a touch of the theatrical, then the Toby Peters series is just your ticket.”
      —Houston Chronicle

Author Bio

STUART M. KAMINSKY (1934-2009), a Mystery Writers of America Master as well as an Edgar Award-winning author, was one of the most prolific crime fiction writers 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.

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