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EXERCISE IN TERROR

STUART M. KAMINSKY

This taut thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of When the Dark Man Calls "builds with great tension to a shocking conclusion" ( Chicago Tribune). On a hot summer afternoon, Maureen sits with her two children in the family car, anxiously waiting for her husband David. There are two men lurking nearby—a couple of drunks who followed them here from the supermarket—and t...

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LIEBERMAN'S THIEF

STUART M. KAMINSKY

An Edgar Award–winning author steals the show again in "a beautifully calibrated mix of wit, suspense, and quiet honesty" ( The Washington Post Book World). It should have been an easy score—a suburban house on a quiet cul-de-sac, with the owners scheduled to be gone all night. But career burglar George Patniks has chosen the wrong time to go breaking and entering, because to...

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LIEBERMAN'S CHOICE

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Two Chicago cops need to defuse an explosive situation in this "tightly plotted" police procedural ( Chicago Tribune). After killing his wife and her lover, an unhinged and heavily armed Chicago cop named Bernie Shepard barricades himself at the top of a high-rise apartment building and sends a message to the police: meet his demands, or he'll detonate enough explosives to bl...

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LIEBERMAN'S FOLLY

STUART M. KAMINSKY

The first novel in a crime series about "two Chicago cops, one Jewish, one Irish . . . Told with deceptive simplicity [and] a gentle wit" ( The Boston Globe). Detectives Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan have been partners a long time—long enough to call each other "Rabbi" and "Father Murphy." Lieberman is sixty, a grandfather, and a devout Jew. Hanrahan is a lapsed Catholic wh...

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WHEN THE DARK MAN CALLS

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A "chilling . . . stunning thriller" from the Edgar Award–winning author of Exercise in Terror ( Booklist). It is 1957, and Jean Kaiser is pretending to sleep. When her parents go to bed, she'll turn her radio on low, and groove to Elvis. But from her parents' room, she hears something strange—her mother calling her name in a choking, terrified voice so chilling that Jean ass...

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BLACK KNIGHT IN RED SQUARE

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" ( The Washington Post Book World). The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one Americ...

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BLOOD AND RUBLES

STUART M. KAMINSKY

In an era of financial free-for-all in Russia, a Moscow cop deals with rampant crime in a "terrific" and "exceptional" police drama ( Detroit Free Press). It's the mid-nineties, and capitalism and privatization have come to Russia. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia is on the rise. Newfound democracy has not r...

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A COLD RED SUNRISE

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A Moscow cop is left out in the cold in this "impressive" Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Novel ( The Washington Post Book World). When forced to choose between the law and the party line, Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a disturbing tendency to fight for justice, and that has won him no friends at the Kremlin. Now his enemies in the KGB have arranged a transfer to...

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DEATH OF A DISSIDENT

STUART M. KAMINSKY

In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector, "Kaminsky gets Russia right" (Ed McBain). Aleksander Granovsky has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal system. In two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays to the West. It is a show trial, and there is no doubt he will be convicted and executed, yet before he die...

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THE DOG WHO BIT A POLICEMAN

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Moscow's gone to the dogs in the "imaginative" Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop ( The New York Times Book Review). With packs of stray wild canines roaming Moscow, it was inevitable that enterprising criminals would find a way to get rich. As dogfighting became big business, the Mafia got involved, and venues upgraded from alleys and garages ...

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FALL OF A COSMONAUT

STUART M. KAMINSKY

With his Edgar Award–winning series about a Moscow cop, "Kaminsky's a master of tone, maintaining the edgy excitement of suspense" ( The Washington Post). In the 1960s, Russian children wanted to be cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. But the Soviet Union is history, and Gagarin's glory is long gone. For the men and women aboard the decaying Mir space stat...

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A FINE RED RAIN

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning "Ed McBain of Mother Russia" ( Kirkus Reviews). Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow—until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk...

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HARD CURRENCY

STUART M. KAMINSKY

"Kaminsky gets Russia right, and Cuba right, but best of all he gets his superb cop Rostnikov altogether right yet another time. Bravo!" —Ed McBain The Soviet Union is dead, and Russian society has been fractured into a thousand pieces. Through those cracks seeps the first serial killer in the country's history, whose exploits send Moscow into a frenzy. As his colleagues hunt...

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THE MAN WHO WALKED LIKE A BEAR

STUART M. KAMINSKY

This "superb mystery-thriller" featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent of Arkady Renko delivers "riveting suspense" ( Publishers Weekly). Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife Sarah have been in love for decades, since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his wife's bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a massive naked man staggers into her hospital r...

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MURDER ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A Moscow cop juggles cases of kidnapping, murder, and a missing Czarist-era document in a modern-day mystery with "never a dull moment" ( Library Journal). In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone...

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RED CHAMELEON

STUART M. KAMINSKY

This thrilling crime novel features "the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko" ( San Francisco Examiner). After a lifetime in service to the Soviet Union, police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov may have found a way out. A high-profile homicide leads him to a cache of documents packed full of incriminating Kremlin gossip, which he uses as...

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THE FALA FACTOR

STUART M. KAMINSKY

With "shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett," a 1940s Los Angeles private eye must recover FDR's kidnapped dog ( The San Diego Union-Tribune). Working in Hollywood, private eye Toby Peters has met a lot of phonies. But his newest case concerns a four-legged faker who threatens the fate of the free world. A few classy dames have crossed the detective's doorstep, but ...

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POOR BUTTERFLY

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A 1940s Hollywood gumshoe heads to San Francisco to foil a very real phantom of the opera in this "believable and entertaining" mystery ( Publishers Weekly). 1942 is a dangerous year to stage Madama Butterfly. Although Puccini's masterpiece is a perennial favorite of the San Francisco opera crowd, its sympathetic depiction of a Japanese girl causes tension a year after Pearl ...

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BURIED CAESARS

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Gen. Douglas MacArthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in "one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series" ( Time). It's September 1942, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur believes he's got what it takes to win the war in the Pacific—but he's got a personal problem to take care of first. An aide has run off with his war chest, his donor list, and a handful of em...

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DANCING IN THE DARK

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A PI performs some fancy footwork to protect Fred Astaire as "Edgar winner Kaminsky effortlessly choreographs Hollywood history . . . and dirty doings" ( Publishers Weekly). Sometimes fools must step in where Fred Astaire fears to tap. Luna Martin, the moll of a well-known Los Angeles gangster nicknamed "Fingers" (because he likes to cut them off), has demanded dance lesson...

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A FATAL GLASS OF BEER

STUART M. KAMINSKY

This "enjoyable lark" is a road-trip mystery with an old Hollywood backdrop, starring PI Toby Peters and the great comic W. C. Fields ( Library Journal). Under names like Otis J. Raisincluster, Quigley E. Sneersight, and Cormorant Beecham III, W. C. Fields squirreled away nearly a million dollars in banks across the country during his vaudeville days—before he became one of t...

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A FEW MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT

STUART M. KAMINSKY

PI Toby Peters comes to the aid of Charlie Chaplin when the Little Tramp becomes a big target in this "ingenious" mystery from the Edgar Award winner ( Kirkus Reviews). In 1943, Charlie Chaplin is far from the most popular man in America. His communist sympathies and romantic indiscretions with young women have enraged everyone from right-wing radicals and the Ku Klux Klan to...

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NOW YOU SEE IT

STUART M. KAMINSKY

The final Toby Peters Hollywood whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author is "a marvelous magic trick of a mystery" featuring Harry Blackstone ( Booklist, starred review). When an anonymous rival demands that master illusionist Harry Blackstone reveal his secrets on stage or die, the magician hires Toby Peters and his brother, ex-cop Phil Pevsner, to run security for his s...

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BULLET FOR A STAR

STUART M. KAMINSKY

The first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: "Nostalgic fun" ( Publishers Weekly). Hollywood, 1940: 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 perso...

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CATCH A FALLING CLOWN

STUART M. KAMINSKY

A hard-boiled Hollywood PI has to work without a net to save Emmett Kelly from a killer who's not clowning around: "Nostalgic fun" ( Publishers Weekly). In February 1942, Californians may be living in fear of a Japanese attack, but the show must go on. The circus is in town—unfortunately so is a killer saboteur who's targeting the star attractions. Private detective Toby Pete...

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THE DEVIL MET A LADY

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Hired as a bodyguard for diva Bette Davis, this wisecracking Hollywood PI better fasten his seat belt, it's going to be a bumpy night. Bette Davis has three words to describe her hotel hideaway: "What a dump!" After two days locked in a rented room with the acid-tongued actress, private eye Toby Peters is starting to feel like he's her husband—instead of Arthur Farnsworth—a...

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HE DONE HER WRONG

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae West. In the early days of talking pictures, the greatest sex symbol in Hollywood was the platinum-blonde bad girl Mae West. Naughty and gorgeous with a razor-sharp wit, West wrote her own material and controlled her own image—until the cens...

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THE MELTING CLOCK

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Time is running out for surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and a 1940s Hollywood PI: "Fast-paced, well-plotted, consistently funny" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). Talk about surreal! An ax-wielding monk hacks at a door, while on the other side private detective Toby Peters is running as fast as his recently broken leg will allow, alongside Salvador Dalí, dressed in a rabbit suit...

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NEVER CROSS A VAMPIRE

STUART M. KAMINSKY

The stakes are life and death when Bela Lugosi is threatened in this "affectionate parody of the hard-boiled private-eye" genre ( The New York Times). 1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie palace, five vampires crowd around Bela Lugosi. They should not frighten the fading horror icon, who found worldwide fame as Dracula, for these are only wannabes—diehard fa...

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SMART MOVES

STUART M. KAMINSKY

It doesn't take a genius to see Albert Einstein's life is in danger, but it will take a hard-headed Hollywood PI to save him. It's all relative. It's April 1942, the world is at war, and LA private detective Toby Peters has been summoned to Princeton, New Jersey, to deal with a situation of the utmost gravity—the world's greatest physicist is being threatened. Blackmailers cl...

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