Författare: Stuart M. Kaminsky

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Stuart Melvin Kaminsky (1934–2009) war ein US-amerikanischer Krimi-Autor. Kaminsky studierte Journalistik und Amerikanistik und hatte in den Jahren 1973–1989 an der Northwestern University die Professur für Filmproduktion und Filmgeschichte inne, bis er in die Leitung des Konservatoriums für Film- und Fernsehproduktion wechselte. In den 1970ern begann er Kriminalromane zu schreiben, bei welchen sein Protagonist, der Privatermittler Toby Peters, fiktive Aufträge von Berühmtheiten wie Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper oder Albert Einstein erhielt. In den 1980ern verfasste er eine Kriminal-Serie um den russischen Inspektor Porifirij Petrovich Rostnikov. 2006 übernahm Kaminsky den Vorsitz des Verbandes Mystery Writers of America, die ihn sechsmal für den Edgar Allan Poe Award nominiert hatten.




61 E-böcker av Stuart M. Kaminsky

Rex Stout: Doorbell Rang
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Deluge
Days and nights of heavy spring rain threaten to cripple New York City. Neighborhoods are experiencing periodic blackouts. People have been reported electrocuted by fallen power lines. Flooding of so …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Dead of Winter
A thrilling original novel based on the television series CSI: New York!Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Blood on the Sun
An original novel based on the critically acclaimed hit CBS series CSI: New York, by one of the most impressive crime writers of the twentieth century. Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated crime scene …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Howard Hughes Affair
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Howard Hughes hires Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters to find stolen blueprints in the ’;marvelously entertaining’ series (Newsday). Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secret …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: You Bet Your Life
As a hard-boiled Hollywood PI enlists Al Capone’s help to save the Marx Brothers, Kaminsky “makes the totally wacky possible” (The Washington Post).   It’s 1941 and the M …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Smart Moves
It doesn’t take a genius to see Albert Einstein’s life is in danger, but it will take a hard-headed Hollywood PI to save him. It’s all relative.   It’s April 1942, the wo …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Never Cross a Vampire
The stakes are life and death when Bela Lugosi is threatened in this ’;affectionate parody of the hard-boiled private-eye’ genre (The New York Times). 1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Catch a Falling Clown
A hard-boiled Hollywood PI has to work without a net to save Emmett Kelly from a killer who’s not clowning around: “Nostalgic fun” (Publishers Weekly).   In February 1942, Cali …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Tomorrow Is Another Day
Frankly, a killer doesn’t give a damn about offing Clark Gable—or Toby Peters—in this “fast-paced and colorful addition to a very successful series” (Publishers Weekly). …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Man Who Shot Lewis Vance
Someone’s gunning for John Wayne in this ’;well-plotted’ mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly). Something about Lewis Vance’s story doesn’t add up. T …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Down for the Count
In this ’;lively noir mystery, ’ a 1940s Hollywood private eye tries to clear heavyweight champ Joe Louis and corner a killer (Library Journal). Joe Louis may be the heavyweight champ of the world, b …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: He Done Her Wrong
Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae West.   In the early days of talking pictures, the greate …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: High Midnight
A forties Hollywood PI does not forsake Gary Cooper: ’;Like all of Toby [Peters’s] adventures, High Midnight is high entertainment’ (The Cincinnati Post). When laconic leading man Gary Cooper needs a …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: To Catch a Spy
’;Edgar winner Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun’ as Hollywood PI Toby Peters teams up with Cary Grant in this World War IIera spy romp (Publishers Weekly). Since the start of World War II, Car …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Melting Clock
Time is running out for surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and a 1940s Hollywood PI: “Fast-paced, well-plotted, consistently funny” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).   Talk about sur …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Bullet for a Star
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 sinc …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
In this ’;marvelously entertaining’ mystery, a hard-boiled Hollywood private eye investigates a murdered Munchkin on the set of The Wizard of Oz (Newsday). A year after The Wizard of Oz’s smash succe …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Think Fast, Mr. Peters
In a fun series with “shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, ” a 1940s PI must find out who’s gunning for Peter Lorre (The San Diego Union-Tribune).   Scaly-voiced an …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Devil Met a Lady
Hired as a bodyguard for diva Bette Davis, this wisecracking Hollywood PI better fasten his seat belt, it’s going to be a bumpy night.   Bette Davis has three words to describe her hotel h …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Mildred Pierced
’;A page-turning romp’ from the Edgar Awardwinning author featuring a nutty dentist, a killer crossbow, and Joan Crawford in 1940s Hollywood (Booklist, starred review). Mildred Minck is an unremarkab …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Now You See It
The final Toby Peters Hollywood whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author is “a marvelous magic trick of a mystery” featuring Harry Blackstone (Booklist, starred review).   …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Few Minutes Past Midnight
PI Toby Peters comes to the aid of Charlie Chaplin when the Little Tramp becomes a big target in this “ingenious” mystery from the Edgar Award winner (Kirkus Reviews).   In 1943, Cha …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Fatal Glass of Beer
This “enjoyable lark” is a road-trip mystery with an old Hollywood backdrop, starring PI Toby Peters and the great comic W. C. Fields (Library Journal).   Under names like Otis …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Dancing in the Dark
A PI performs some fancy footwork to protect Fred Astaire as “Edgar winner Kaminsky effortlessly choreographs Hollywood history . . . and dirty doings” (Publishers Weekly). …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Buried Caesars
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in “one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series” (Time).   It’s September 1942, and Gen. Dougla …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Fala Factor
With ’;shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, ’ a 1940s Los Angeles private eye must recover FDR’s kidnapped dog (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Working in Hollywood, private eye Toby Peters …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Poor Butterfly
A 1940s Hollywood gumshoe heads to San Francisco to foil a very real phantom of the opera in this “believable and entertaining” mystery (Publishers Weekly).   1942 is a dangerous yea …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Death of a Dissident
In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector, “Kaminsky gets Russia right” (Ed Mc Bain).   Aleksander Granovsky has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Black Knight in Red Square
A Soviet cop stars in this novel of “sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers” (The Washington Post Book World).   The Mosco …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Tarnished Icons
In the Edgar Awardwinning crime series featuring a veteran Moscow cop, ’;Kaminsky evokes Russian life like a born Muscovite’ (The Philadelphia Inquirer). During the widespread corruption of the Yelts …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Red Chameleon
This thrilling crime novel features “the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko” (San Francisco Examiner).   After a lifetime in servic …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Blood and Rubles
In an era of financial free-for-all in Russia, a Moscow cop deals with rampant crime in a “terrific” and “exceptional” police drama (Detroit Free Press).   It’s the …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Dog Who Bit a Policeman
Moscow’s gone to the dogs in the “imaginative” Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop (The New York Times Book Review).   With packs of stray …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Fall of a Cosmonaut
With his Edgar Award–winning series about a Moscow cop, “Kaminsky’s a master of tone, maintaining the edgy excitement of suspense” (The Washington Post).   In the 1960s, …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Cold Red Sunrise
A Moscow cop is left out in the cold in this “impressive” Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Novel (The Washington Post Book World).   When forced to choose between the law and the …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Hard Currency
“Kaminsky gets Russia right, and Cuba right, but best of all he gets his superb cop Rostnikov altogether right yet another time. Bravo!” —Ed Mc Bain   The Soviet Union is dead, …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Man Who Walked Like a Bear
This “superb mystery-thriller” featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent of Arkady Renko delivers “riveting suspense” (Publishers Weekly).   Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife Sarah …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
A Moscow cop juggles cases of kidnapping, murder, and a missing Czarist-era document in a modern-day mystery with “never a dull moment” (Library Journal). In the waning days of the Russia …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Fine Red Rain
Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning “Ed Mc Bain of Mother Russia” (Kirkus Reviews).   Porfiry Rostnikov w …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Death of a Russian Priest
“Never miss a Kaminsky book, and be especially sure not to miss Death of a Russian Priest.” —Tony Hillerman, New York Times–bestselling author   In the darkest hours of c …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Rostnikov’s Vacation
Murder intrudes on a Moscow cop’s vacation: ’;Kaminsky’s Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written’ (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding spring in Y …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Lieberman’s Law
With his Chicago cops, Edgar Award winner ’;Kaminsky is hard to beat for a thoughtful, well-plotted, well-written mystery’ (The Washington Post Book World). Most days, the counters at Maish’s Deli on …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Lieberman’s Folly
The first novel in a crime series about “two Chicago cops, one Jewish, one Irish . . . Told with deceptive simplicity [and] a gentle wit” (The Boston Globe).   Detecti …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Lieberman’s Day
A Chicago cop is out to avenge his nephew’s murder in this ’;masterly creation’ that puts the Edgar Awardwinning author in ’;the Parker/Paretsky league’ (Chicago Tribune). When you’re a sixty-two-yea …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Lieberman’s Choice
Two Chicago cops need to defuse an explosive situation in this “tightly plotted” police procedural (Chicago Tribune).   After killing his wife and her lover, an unhinged and heavily …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Lieberman’s Thief
An Edgar Award–winning author steals the show again in “a beautifully calibrated mix of wit, suspense, and quiet honesty” (The Washington Post Book World).   It should have bee …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: When the Dark Man Calls
A “chilling . . . stunning thriller” from the Edgar Award–winning author of Exercise in Terror (Booklist).   It is 1957, and Jean Kaiser is pretending to sleep. …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Exercise in Terror
This taut thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of When the Dark Man Calls “builds with great tension to a shocking conclusion” (Chicago Tribune).   On a hot summer afte …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Big Silence
This Chicago cop drama is ’;jam-packed with the stuff of good crime fictioncharacter, style, place, recognizable human conflict’ (The Washington Post). When the wife of a mob witness is killed and hi …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Last Dark Place
A veteran Chicago cop who’s also a mensch, ’;Lieberman is endearing, wise in his crochets, weary with his wisdom’ (The Washington Post Book World). Thirty-three years ago, Connie Gower pulled a gun i …
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Ed Gorman & Stuart M. Kaminsky: Melody and Murder
From Hollywood’s Golden Age to a rock ’n’ roll tragedy, this pair of detective novels from two award-winning maestros of mystery hits all the right notes.   From Edgar Award&nd …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Bullet for a Star
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 sinc …
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Joe Meno: Chicago Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
’In this superior entry in Akashic’s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction….Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Buried Caesars
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in “one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series” (Time).   It’s September 1942, and Gen. Dougla …
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€12.78
Stuart M. Kaminsky: Cold Red Sunrise
A Moscow cop is left out in the cold in this “impressive” Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Novel (The Washington Post Book World).   When forced to choose between the law and the …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Retribution
PI and process-server Lew Fonesca returns in a "nail-biting missing-persons case" from the Edgar Award-winning author of Vengeance (Booklist).Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Midnight Pass
Edgar Award-Winning Author: A downhearted detective deals with missing persons and murder in the "psychologically acute and fast-moving crime series" (Booklist).Lew Fonesca is a guy just tr …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Denial
A Florida process server trying to pick up the pieces of his life looks into a hit-and-run mystery in this "compelling" crime novel by the Edgar Award winner (Kirkus Reviews).Lew Fonesca is …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Always Say Goodbye
Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Work …
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Stuart M. Kaminsky: Vengeance
Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attourney’s Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late …
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