Synopses & Reviews
With a hilarious new Hollywood thriller and in the hire of the urbane, amusing screen star Cary Grant, private investigator Toby Peters continues a madcap career that has cast him as sleuth to such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothers, Bette Davis, Mae West, and Charlie Chaplin.
Like many a movie mystery, this one begins in the middle of the night, when Toby, trying to deliver a package at Grant's behest, finds himself with a corpse on his hands, a lump on his head, and an odd message from a dying man. Now in pursuit of a murderer, Toby and Grant, who proves to be no less acrobatic than he is resourceful, follow a trail of clues that leads them eventually to a den of Nazi sympathizers and finally to a nighttime confrontation on a mountaintop with a very determined and formidably well-armed killer.
As always, Toby can count on the aid of his friends: the unsanitary dentist Shelly Minck, with whom Toby shares an office; the huge wrestler-turned-poet Jerry Buffer; the suave Swiss little person Gunther Whertman, who has mastered as many languages as he has skills; and Mrs. Irene Plaut, Toby's daffy but dogged landlady. As always, too, all four lend Toby their loyalty and support, although they are more likely to add to the chaos.
Review
"Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun....Toby and the acrobatic Grant...make an appealing team. The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek. The series may be tissue thin by this point, but fans are in for a merry ride." Publishers Weekly
Review
"The latest in prolific Kaminsky's Toby Peters series is a mild-mannered thriller peril but no real mystery that seems to be marking time between his last zany adventure (A Few Minutes Past Midnight) and the next." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
Following his triumphant return in A Few Minutes Past Midnight, Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters takes his 22nd outing, this time with Cary Grant.