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Kaminsky, Stuart M. was born on September 29, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Leo and Dorothy Zelac Kaminsky.
( The Victims An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's o...)
The Victims An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's own frightened wife. Most troublesome of all, an outspoken dissident, watched closely by the KGB, whose trial had been set for the very next day. The Weapons A heavy iron-headed hammer. A rusty, antiquated sickle. And a broken vodka bottle. The Cops Tkach, who seduces suspects into confessing with his apparent innocence. Karpo, a bit of a Tartar, a bit of a vampire, a stolid saint of the Soviet faith. And Rostnikov, their leader, who almost wishes the investigation won't turn out to be too simple. Before the case is over, Rostnikov will remember that wish and regret it.
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( “The Ed McBain of Mother Russia.” ―Kirkus Built in th...)
“The Ed McBain of Mother Russia.” ―Kirkus Built in the twilight of the Tsarist state, Moscow's Metropole Hotel is a poignant reminder of the decadence of the last regime. But today its corridors are musty, its rooms are dank, and now its restaurant is the scene of a quadruple murder. Four men-one American, one Japanese, and two citizens of Mother Russia-share a meal of smoked salmon, caviar, and two bottles of vodka. In the morning, all are found dead, blood on their lips and faces contorted in pain. To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A terrorist is targeting foreigners to embarrass the Soviet state, and the killer will happily sacrifice any Russian who gets in the way.
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( Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of T...)
Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown’s finest 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 a very young girl. Although Flynn insists it’s a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Toby is to deliver the blackmailer $5,000 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. Though he isn’t impressed by movie stars, if Toby Peters isn’t careful he may end up dying for one.
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(THE VICTIMS An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's own ...)
THE VICTIMS An unscrupulous cab driver. The killer's own frightened wife. Most troublesome of all, an outspoken dissident, watched closely by the KGB, whose trial had been set for the very next day. THE WEAPONS A heavy iron-headed hammer. A rusty, antiquated sickle. And a broken vodka bottle. THE COPS Tkach, who seduces suspects into confessing with his apparent innocence. Karpo, a bit of a Tartar, a bit of a vampire, a stolid saint of the Soviet faith. And Rostnikov, their leader, who almost wishes the investigation won't turn out to be too simple. Before the case is over, Rostnikov will remember that wish and regret it. "Stuart Kaminsky has created a sympathetic and engaging hero . . . ." -- The Cincinnati Post
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( Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. So...)
Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother just trying to get by. A random act of brutality in one of Chicago's rougher neighborhoods permanently ends her struggle. Richard Allen Smith walks the streets of ChiTown saying God has sent him. He has an unusual, rather nasty way of getting converts to see the light. What do these people have in common? Nothing, it would seem, except they are all part of Detective Abe Lieberman's very long day. Lieberman, a sad, baggy-eyed spaniel of a man with the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon is trying his best to make his beloved Chicago a better place. But when Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, encounter these three very different situations they are find that there are ties that bind and ties that can cut a man's heart out. Abe Lieberman faces a Gordian knot that he must somehow untangle--and if he makes a mistake, someone very near to him could die.
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(A classic Rockford case involves retrieving stolen proper...)
A classic Rockford case involves retrieving stolen property, locating a cat for an eccentric, wealthy old lady, thugs out to rearrange Rockford's anatomy, and a hunt that turns deadly when a beautiful woman in search of Hollywood fame turns up missing.
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(1980 St. Martin's Press hardcover, Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bu...)
1980 St. Martin's Press hardcover, Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bullet for a Star). The life of the American film Actor and the roles that won him a place in Hollywood history
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(Oxford University Press, 1975, Very good., Text clean. Li...)
Oxford University Press, 1975, Very good., Text clean. Light wear. Illustrated with b&w photos. First paperback edition. Cinema, Ingmar Bergman, Criticism Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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(One of Kaminsky's best thrillers, this is a chilling nove...)
One of Kaminsky's best thrillers, this is a chilling novel of suspense--the story of a woman stalked by a man she knows only by his slow, sinister voice over the telephone. The night her parents were murdered in their sleep, ten-year-old Jeannie awoke to hear the phone ringing endlessly. Now the phone is ringing again--25 years later--and Jean must face her parents' murderer, alone.
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(In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophist...)
In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophisticated critical tools of contemporary literary and film analysis to examine popular American television genres. Critical approaches ranging from historical to anthropological to structural and psychoanalytic are clearly presented and then used to analyze a variety of shows including soap operas, police dramas, game shows, and news programs. Throughout the book the authors explore the ways in ehich the genres of popular television regularly viewed by millions are significant on a cultural and social level. These explorations reveal that popular television can be understood as a rich and complex art form. This book will provide the student with a detailed introduction to the art of television criticism.
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( Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. So...)
Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. Sometimes he feels like he's spent his life hitting into double plays, but he's finally gotten onto the right track. Then tragedy strikes him out. Anita Mills is a pretty single black mother just trying to get by. A random act of brutality in one of Chicago's rougher neighborhoods permanently ends her struggle. Richard Allen Smith walks the streets of ChiTown saying God has sent him. He has an unusual, rather nasty way of getting converts to see the light. What do these people have in common? Nothing, it would seem, except they are all part of Detective Abe Lieberman's very long day. Lieberman, a sad, baggy-eyed spaniel of a man with the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon is trying his best to make his beloved Chicago a better place. But when Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, encounter these three very different situations they find that there are ties that bind and ties that can cut a man's heart out. Abe Lieberman faces a Gordian knot that he must somehow untangle--and if he makes a mistake, someone very near to him could die.
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(The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes' boats, bikinis,...)
The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes' boats, bikinis, and gentle breezes, but it has nevertheless attracted scores of international actors, directors, and deal-makers. For some, the festival represents Moscow's re-emergence as a world-class city. But for a gang of zealots headed by a beautiful brunette, the festival represents a target, and they have been attacking the film people with frightening efficiency. Desperate to avoid embarrassment, the Kremlin is trying to cover up the killings. And desperate to stop the killers, the KGB has put Inspector Rostnikov on the case.
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(A marvelously enjoyable book, filled with fascinating rev...)
A marvelously enjoyable book, filled with fascinating revelations about a fascinating man and his work. The author's keen perception illuminates both.
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(The year is 1940 and Los Angeles-based private eye Toby P...)
The year is 1940 and Los Angeles-based private eye Toby Peters has been asked to track down a murderer stalking the back lots of one of Hollywood's most powerful movie companies. This is the first paperback publication of a noir classic which has been out of print for over 12 years.
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( Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed...)
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. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Life's a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew's found that he's really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he's willing to leave the planet, it's about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew hates to admit it, but he's beginning to see her point. So Lew returns to his home town, to friends and family…and to a grief that threatens to engulf him. He's resolved to dig until he finds out who killed his wife. In doing so, he'll uncover both sweet and painful memories of his past. He'll also confront a murderer who'll not hesitate to kill again to make sure hidden secrets stay buried.
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( One of Stuart M. Kaminsky's most memorable characters, ...)
One of Stuart M. Kaminsky's most memorable characters, Abe Lieberman is a veteran detective who uses his head and heart more than his gun. Lieberman loves what he does and this takes a toll as his commitment to what is right is sorely tested every day on the mean streets of Chicago. As a moral man, he is sometimes faced with uncomfortable ethical choices in order to see that justice--rather than the letter of the law-is meted out. With The Last Dark Place, Lieberman and his Irish partner Bill Hanrahan, known on the streets as the Rabbi and the Priest, have their hands full with dark matters both professional and personal. Lieberman goes to Arizona on an extradition case to pick up a mob enforcer that goes horribly awry when the man he is slated to bring back is gunned down at the airport. He comes back from this disaster determined to find out who arranged the hit, and explain to his superiors just how he could have let this happen on his watch. And there's the little matter of pulling off Lieberman's grandson's bar mitzvah, which threatens to bankrupt him. While Lieberman is away, Hanrahan has his hands full. Coupled with a temporary partner who is racist, sexist and a general bane of human existence, Hanrahan has to deal with a rape case involving the young wife of a fellow police officer. Hanrahan must race to find the culprits because he knows homicidal rage when he sees it and knows that it is only a matter of time before the officer takes the law into his own hands. And then there's a young man who dreams of being a star...or killing one to get the notoriety.
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(With James Garner as its star, "The Rockford Files" premi...)
With James Garner as its star, "The Rockford Files" premiered on NBC in 1974 and ran for six years. The show was a perennial favorite, thanks to its likable cast, fast-paced action, and the clever mysteries. "Devil on My Doorstep", written by Edgar Award-winning author Stuart M. Kaminsky, is the second novel in this new series Targeted print ads. .
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(With an American and his drinking buddies lying dead, hun...)
With an American and his drinking buddies lying dead, hundreds of foreigners in town for the Moscow Film Festival, and members of an international terrorist organization spotted in the crowd, Rostnikov can feel disaster in the wind. Unabridged on CD, 8 hours and 17 minutes.
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(At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the ...)
At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exile dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate - murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one strange caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death, even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked.
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(Tie into this month's Toby Peters mystery hardcover, The ...)
Tie into this month's Toby Peters mystery hardcover, The Devil Met a Lady, with his 16th adventure. Surrealist painter Salvador Dali enlists Toby's help in retrieving three stolen paintings--from thieves Dali hired as a publicity stunt.
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( After a very long absence, Forge is delighted to be bri...)
After a very long absence, Forge is delighted to be bringing back one of Edgar award winning Stuart Kaminsky’s best loved characters, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union Russia. Known as “The Washtub,” Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and politburos, he has solved crimes, mostly in spite of the powers that be that rule his world. In People Who Walk in Darkness, Rostnikov travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret…and an even older personal problem. His compatriots head to Kiev on a trail of smuggled diamonds and kidnapped guest workers…and what they discover leads them to a vast conspiracy that not only has international repercussions but threatens them on a very personal level. People Who Walk in Darkness is a fast-paced novel of modern Russia told by one of mystery’s finest storytellers.
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(At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the ...)
At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate--murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one strange caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death, even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked. In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB--and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.
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( A woman fights to protect her family when, eight years ...)
A woman fights to protect her family when, eight years after her husband's murder, his killers return Bittie's hot dogs are worth waiting for. Outside the hot dog stand one summer afternoon, Maureen sits with her two children in the family's car, wishing her husband would hurry up and get their food. Two men lurk nearby - a couple of drunks who had followed them from the supermarket. Before David can get into the car, the drunk men confront him, attack him, and take a baseball bat to his skull, while Maureen desperately tries to shield their little boy and girl. Eight years later, Maureen doesn't eat hot dogs anymore. She makes a living as an exercise instructor and all-around fitness freak, a rigorously disciplined lifestyle that has just managed to see her family through the horror of David's murder. But one day, the phone rings - a message from the killers that they are not finished tormenting her family. They are coming for Maureen, and no matter how fit she is, she cannot run fast enough to escape.
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(One Dead Commissar At an icebound naval weather station ...)
One Dead Commissar At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull. One Live Cop Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked. One Cold Killer In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB -- and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.
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( That down-at-the-heels gumshoe Toby Peters again proves...)
That down-at-the-heels gumshoe Toby Peters again proves to be “an unblemished delight,” as the Washington Post Book World put it, while his creator, Stuart M. Kaminsky, continues to “make the totally wacky possible” in a zany new Hollywood adventure. Having survived the hire of such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Charlie Chaplin, and Cary Grant, tinsel-town detective Toby finds himself in the employ of an edgy Joan Crawford. Actually, Toby needs Miss Crawford as much as she needs him. His longtime friend and office mate, the mad dentist Sheldon Minck, has been jailed for murder—the victim, his estranged wife, Mildred; the motive, a $200,000 inheritance; the weapon, a crossbow. Only Miss Crawford, the single witness to the crime, can attest to hapless Minck’s innocence. But the former MGM movie queen has just been offered her first film in two years, as the title character in Mildred Pierce, so she is anxious to avoid unpleasant publicity that could cost her the role. So it’s up to Toby to solve the crime, save Minck, and thus keep Miss Crawford’s famous name out of the daily papers.
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Kaminsky, Stuart M. was born on September 29, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Leo and Dorothy Zelac Kaminsky.
Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communications, University Illinois, 1957. Master of Arts in English Literature with honors, University Illinois, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Speech, Film-television, Theatre Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1972.
He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood. Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector. And veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman.
A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida.
Kaminsky, who grew up in Chicago, earned a Bachelor of Surgery in journalism and an Master of Arts He taught film studies at Northwestern for 16 years, and then taught at Florida State for six years. Kaminsky"s first novel was the 1977 Toby Peters mystery Bullet for a Star.
He went on to write over 60 novels, as well as story collections and nonfiction works. Kaminsky was a past president of the Mystery Writers of America.
Besides being one of America"s most prolific mystery writers, Kaminsky inspired many other writers in the genre, including fellow Chicagoan Sara Paretsky, who dedicated the first novel in her V. I. Warshawski private-eye series to Kaminsky.
He suffered a stroke two days after their arrival in Saint Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009.
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(The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes' boats, bikinis,...)
(In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophist...)
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(At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the ...)
( Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed...)
(A marvelously enjoyable book, filled with fascinating rev...)
(With James Garner as its star, "The Rockford Files" premi...)
(Tie into this month's Toby Peters mystery hardcover, The ...)
( Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. So...)
( Carl Zwick is an aging Chicago Cubs baseball player. So...)
(Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film)
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Program chairman, co-artistic director, board member Sarasota French Film Festival. Chair Festival of Jewish Films, Sarasota, Florida, since 1998. Past board member Chicago Film Festival Board, Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment Humanities, council for International Exchange of Scholars, Florida Media Arts Council, Enzian Theater.
With United States Army, 1957-1959, France, Germany. Member Society for Cinema Studies, University Film and Video Association, Mystery Writers American (president 1998), International Association Crime Writers (United States delegate International board meeting in Moscow, 1991), Crime Writers Association of Europe, Private Eye Writers of America, Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Writers Guild of America.
Married Merle Gordon, August 11, 1959 (divorced September 1986). Children: Peter, Toby, Lucy. Married Enid Lisa Perll, January 7, 1987.
1 child, Natasha.