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. The guy claims to be John Wayne’s stand-in, and
he’s called Det. Toby Peters about a possible job involving the
star. But when Peters meets him in a seedy hotel room, Vance slips him
a mickey. After Peters comes to, his head pounding, he sees the real
John Wayne pointing a .38 at him. Vance was not exactly a dead ringer
for the Duke—but he is dead, lying on the hotel bed with a bullet
hole drilled in his forehead. And it’s a dead heat as to who’s
more confused—the gumshoe or the movie star. On screen no one
gets the drop on the Duke, but in real life someone’s trying to kill
him. Wayne hires Peters to get to the bottom of things, and soon
he’s tangled up in a twisted conspiracy that also involves a dubious
desk clerk named Teddy Spaghetti, the Russians, and none other than
the Little Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin. “As in the other
entries in this series, Kaminsky’s use of period detail and his
appealing renderings of real-life celebrities provide the strongest
recommendations for this well-plotted mystery.” —Publishers Weekly
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ISBN
9781453232866
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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