The Howard Hughes Affair, Stuart M. Kaminsky
The Howard Hughes Affair, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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The Howard Hughes Affair

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021

Synopsis

On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Howard Hughes hires Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters to find stolen blueprints in this "marvelously entertaining" series (Newsday).

Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secrets. He likes to keep them—and he definitely doesn't like having them stolen. Hollywood PI Toby Peters has a rep for being discreet. So when the film tycoon and aviation magnate needs a detective to very privately investigate the theft of top-secret blueprints taken from his home during one of his fabulous parties, he summons Peters. But what starts as counter-espionage intrigue turns into a triple murder, and Peters soon finds himself bait for a killer.

As America is pulled into World War II, Peters is just trying to stay alive as a gunman chases him through a deserted television soundstage. With help from some unlikely allies—including Basil Rathbone, the silver screen's Sherlock Holmes, and gangster/patriot Bugsy Siegel—Peters is determined to dodge the bullets long enough to recover the blueprints before they fall into the wrong hands.

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on January 06, 2025

Kaminsky takes us on another nostalgia-coated thriller set in Los Angeles in the early 1940s. In this one, the spotlight is on the mysterious Howard Hughes. "“You don’t like me, do you, Peters?” he said with his hand on the doorknob. “—I like your money,” I said. “My father died when I was a kid,” Hu......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on December 06, 2018

Opnieuw doet Stuart Kaminsky het hard-boiled genre alle eer aan met een boek over de niet bijster glamoureuze detective Toby Peters. Het beproefde recept van Hollywood glitter en mensen met hun kleine en gevaarlijke kantjes staat weer garant voor een hoop knokpartijen, achtervolgingen en satirische d......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on November 24, 2020

I'd like my fictional Howard Hughes to be a bit more eccentric. This one was staid. Not the best Peters mystery. Although I did like Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in everyday life.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 13, 2017

Set in L.A. a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. PI Toby Peters gets hired by Howard Hughes, gets involved with stolen airplane plans and gets an assist from Basil Rathbone. Along the way Peters aggravates his cop brother and gets the snot beat out of him more than once. Then there are the......more

Goodreads review by David on February 14, 2023

It's late 1941 in Los Angeles, and Private Investigator Toby Peters is fumbling his way through life. He's moved into a rooming house with an older, deaf landlady, and a friendly German dwarf in the next room. Toby used to be a policeman in Glendale, and then he was a security guard at one of the mo......more

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