Bullet for a Star (The Toby Peters Mysteries #1)

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

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Synopsis: 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