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Title: A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0-7867-0862-X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Short and fun
Comment: For the uninitiated, the Toby Peters mysteries are a fun romp through 1940s Hollywood. Peters is a down-on-his-luck private detective who is hired by famous folks of the forties to help them. A great cast of supporting characters usually helps him along. This book is a perfect example of a Toby Peters mystery. In this novel, he's got to protect Charlie Chaplin from someone who's threatening to kill him. As others have said, it's a little darker in tone, but there are still plenty of funny lines. Again, the comical supporting characters are around, and again, Kaminsky allows them to be funny, while rarely getting carried away (y'know, to the point of goofiness). Kaminsky is obviously much smitten with Hollywood, and he brings this love to his books. A very quick and enjoyable read.
Rating: 5
Summary: TOBY PETERS RETURNS! FINALLY!
Comment: I read my first Toby Peters' story twenty-five years ago. It was A BULLET FOR A STAR, and I immediately fell in love with him, the characters that surround him, the world he lives in, and with the writing of the author who created him.
During that twenty-five years, Toby has managed to star in twenty mystery adventures (each with its own celebrity guest star) while only aging five fictional years.
That is why its strange that the characters seen to have aged and changed so much in the time between this novel and previous one, A FATAL GLASS OF BEER. Maybe, the war or personal concerns are wearing them down. Or maybe it's the fact that the Golden Era of Hollywood is winding to a close. Or maybe, we, the readers and the author, are just growing old. I hope not, Toby Peters exists in a time warp that Stuart Kaminsky, his creator was always able to capture so perfectly. Besides, I still have hopes that someone in television will finally realize that Toby's adventures would make a GREAT television series.
Anyway, return to a wartime Hollywood in 1943 - Charlie Chaplin is Toby's latest co-star and client - and it seems as if someone has borrowed the plot of Lady Killer, Chaplin's latest movie project, for a real life murder spree. Now all Toby and his cast of supporting players (a midget, a giant and a mad dentist) have to do is catch the killer before he completes his gruesome project.
While this book was not up to par with earlier Toby Peter's adventures, I still enjoyed it and I encourage you to give it a try and meet Toby and his associates. By the way, though Toby does not meet his next client at the end of this book as he usually does, I understand that the next adventure will co-star the lord of the jungle himself, Johnny Weismuller. And I can't wait!
Rating: 3
Summary: I enjoyed it, but.........
Comment: The 4 year hiatus that Kaminsky took between Fatal Glass of Beer and this one seems to have dampened his enthusiasm for Toby Peters. While the book was enjoyable it seemed to "cut to the chase" more quickly than before. Also, the characters seemed to lose their "lightheartedness" over the past 4 years. This one seemed much "darker" than the previous 20. I do hope the series continues and reader don't have to wait as long for the next one, but Kaminsky needs get back on track and return to his breezy, uninhibited style and lose the somber overtones.
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Title: A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0892966300 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Tomorrow Is Another Day by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0892965274 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Mildred Pierced: A Toby Peters Mystery by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0786711825 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Poor Butterfly by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0446400114 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance by Stuart M. Kaminsky ISBN: 0445409096 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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