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Smart Moves

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery / Thriller
Unabridged   7.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 03/04/2014

Smart Moves

A Toby Peters Mystery

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Digital Download ISBN:9781622310845

Summary

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?

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Product Description

A dentist dangles from the window of a swanky Park Avenue hotel, while Toby Peters, a Los Angeles detective who’s very far from home, clutches the man by his jacket, which is tearing slowly, stitch by stitch. Across the room, a dead man lies on the bed, his killer pounding on the hotel room door, which sounds like it’s going to give way as quickly as the dentist’s jacket. Somehow, this entire mess is Albert Einstein’s fault.

Two nefarious groups have been threatening the great physicist. One is a ring of blackmailers who claim to have evidence that he has been passing nuclear secrets to Russia. The other, a gang of Nazi assassins intent on doing away with one of the most famous threats to the Third Reich. Einstein hires Toby Peters to solve both problems, his life dependent on Peters being smarter, at least in this case, than he is.

Reviews/Praise

“When one listens to this WWII comic thriller, narrator Stephen Bowlby inhabits so many distinctive, memorable characters that it’s hard to believe he’s narrating all by himself. . . . Bowlby makes even the bit players shine in this energetic production.”
      —AudioFile

“Kaminsky has such a good time writing, and he so loves the period, that the reader is swept along willy-nilly.”
      —The New York Times Book Review

“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

“Kaminsky has a delightfully original mind enriching—rather than just borrowing from—an old literary form.”
      —Los Angeles Times

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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