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 secrets. He likes to keep themand he definitely doesn’t like having them stolen. Hollywood PI Toby Peters has a rep for being discreet. So when the film tycoon and aviation magnate needs a detective to very privately investigate the theft of top-secret blueprints taken from his home during one of his fabulous parties, he summons Peters. But what starts as counter-espionage intrigue turns into a triple murder, and Peters soon finds himself bait for a killer. As America is pulled into World War II, Peters is just trying to stay alive as a gunman chases him through a deserted television soundstage. With help from some unlikely alliesincluding Basil Rathbone, the silver screen’s Sherlock Holmes, and gangster/patriot Bugsy Siegel Peters is determined to dodge the bullets long enough to recover the blueprints before they fall into the wrong hands. The Chicago Sun-Times calls the Toby Peters mysteries ’;entertainment at its best’ as Edgar Awardwinning author Stuart Kaminsky takes readers on a rollicking tour of Hollywood in the forties.
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