Bullet for a Star
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Open Road Media
Published:16th Apr '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: “Nostalgic fun” (Publishers Weekly).
Hollywood, 1940: It’s been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy’s arm. Since then he’s scratched out a living as a private detective—missing persons and bodyguard work mostly—but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him.
Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it’s a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer five thousand dollars and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated.
Soon it’s up to Peters to clear Flynn’s name, following a twisted trail that surprisingly leads to the set of The Maltese Falcon, involving Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. As real-life PI Toby Peters meets Bogie’s Sam Spade, he doesn’t fall prey to being star-struck. But he may still fall prey to a killer.
“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
“Reminiscent of Chandler.” —Publishers Weekly “Peters is a good guy with a sense of humor, and every appearance he makes is a welcome one.” —Booklist “Marvelously entertaining.” —Newsday “Kaminsky came to detective fiction from academia, but the ease of his prose was anything but academic.” —The Guardian “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 “Makes the totally wacky possible . . . Peters [is] an unblemished delight.” —The Washington Post
ISBN: 9781453236802
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
152 pages