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
detective, he does the smart thing and hires Toby Peters, sleuth to
the stars. But the man he finds in Peters’s office isn’t the
famously discreet private eye—it’s the dentist who shares his
office, who’s always had a fantasy of playing gumshoe, and happily
agrees to take care of Cooper’s blackmail problem. Impersonating
Peters, the dentist bungles the case disastrously, and setting it
right will be like pulling teeth. Cooper is in trouble with a
Chicago gangster named Lombardi, who’s come to Los Angeles intending
to set himself up as the cold cuts king of California. Thanks to the
dentist’s meddling, he wants the actor dead. When Cooper hightails
it with his old drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway, it’s up to Peters
to avoid a showdown. High Midnight shows once again how Edgar Award
winner Stuart M. Kaminsky “has a delightfully original mind
enriching—rather than just borrowing from—an old literary form”
(Los Angeles Times).
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ISBN
9781453232897
Publisert
2017
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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