Stuart Kaminsky, You Bet Your Life, 1st Edition 1978, Mystery Novel
"You Bet Your Life" by Stuart M. Kaminsky, published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1978. First edition.
Private eye Toby Peters confronts the Miami mob, the Miami police, the Chicago Mafia, and the Chicago police in an effort to keep the Marx Brothers out of the hands of some of the most vicious mobsters in history.
Dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap [a little edge wear]; hard boards, gold lettering on spine, 5.1/2" x 8.1/2"; bared name on the bottom of the front endpaper, name inked on the edge inside back cover [see photo]; 215 pages, very good condition.
This is a delightful mystery by Stuart Kaminsky featuring his detective, Toby Peters, and starring the Marx Brothers. Kaminsky's Hollywood mysteries are always fun and full of inside gossip about early Hollywood and lots of name-dropping. A fun read for fans of old Hollywood or private eye mysteries.
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.
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"You Bet Your Life" by Stuart M. Kaminsky, published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1978. First edition.
Private eye Toby Peters confronts the Miami mob, the Miami police, the Chicago Mafia, and the Chicago police in an effort to keep the Marx Brothers out of the hands of some of the most vicious mobsters in history.
Dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap [a little edge wear]; hard boards, gold lettering on spine, 5.1/2" x 8.1/2"; bared name on the bottom of the front endpaper, name inked on the edge inside back cover [see photo]; 215 pages, very good condition.
This is a delightful mystery by Stuart Kaminsky featuring his detective, Toby Peters, and starring the Marx Brothers. Kaminsky's Hollywood mysteries are always fun and full of inside gossip about early Hollywood and lots of name-dropping. A fun read for fans of old Hollywood or private eye mysteries.
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.
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World: 1st Class (c 2-7 weeks) --- $34.50
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