Bullet for a Star - Toby Peters, Bk 1 Author:Stuart M. Kaminsky Toby Peters, hard-boiled detective extraordinaire and hero of sixteen mystery novels to date, first appeared in Bullet for a Star -- in which murder stalks the sumptuous sets and glamorous stars of Hollywood's just beginning-to-tarnish Golden Era. — The place: Los Angeles. The time: 1940. The case: To protect Warner Brothers' hottest property, Er... more »rol Flynn from blackmail -- and perhaps murder. Was the scandalous and compromising photo of Flynn and a very, very young girl a fraud? Who was littering Hollywood with corpses? What role were Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Humphrey Bogart to play - both on the Maltese Falcon set and off? And just how much was Warner Brothers paying MGM-rejected screenwriter William Faulkner for two weeks' work?
Bullet for a Star is a tale as fast-paced and unforgettable as the immortal films shot on the Warner lot. Toby Peters's thousands of fans will be delighted to have the first book in Stuart M. Kaminsky's marvelous Hollywood private-eye series back in print.« less
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Murder stalks the sumptuous sets and glamorous stars of Hollwood's golden days...The time: 1940. The case. to protect Warner Brothers hottest property, Errol Flynn, from blackmail and, perhaps. murder.