Private eye Toby Peters follows boxing as much as the next guy, but he never expected to encounter heavyweight champion Joe Louis this way: covered with blood and standing on a deserted beach next to the corpse of Peters’ ex-wife’s husband. The champ is innocent, but he has something to hide, and Toby agrees to protect the Brown Bomber from the police and the press.
Following up on names he gets from the dead man’s address book, Peters soon finds himself in Reed’s gym, embroiled in a sensational fight scam that may ring the final bell for him. Bruised and battered, Peters meets up with an overzealous Santa Monica cop with a special fondness for the LA phone book, a sleazy boxing manager with lousy taste in suits, and a trio of ham-fisted heavies who remind him of the Three Stooges.
Along with his ragtag band of friends and assistants, Peters follows a bloody trail of deception that leads full circle, to the same deserted beach and some startling revelations.
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"I enjoyed listening to this book while working. It was fun to follow and I like the setting quite well. It was interesting to hear how much he was making and refunding during the war by being a private detective." — Maria (4 out of 5 stars)
"I enjoyed listening to this book while working. It was fun to follow and I like the setting quite well. It was interesting to hear how much he was making and refunding during the war by being a private detective."
“[Grover Gardner] serves the story well. The bad guys require the ‘dems’ and ‘doze’ of hard-boiled slang while eccentric characters, such as a Norwegian midget and a near-deaf landlady, offer a range of other vocal challenges, all of which he handles well. Most importantly, [Gardner] makes Toby Peters someone you like and root for.”
“[Grover Gardner’s] staccato presentation helps to set the mood for this lively noir mystery.”
" Toby Peters w/ Joe Lewis "
" Fun, light mystery with a some twists and turns. Lots of fight scenes, but still pretty amusing. "
" 1940S PRIVITE EYE TOBY PETERS FINDS A BODY ON THE BEACH AND BEGINS HIS INVESTIGATION - THE TALE INVOLVES BOXING GREAT JOE LEWIS, HIS EX WIFE, AND A SLEW OF SHADY CHARACTERS. "
" Good; Continuing character: Toby Peters; Toby finds a body on the beach, who turns out to be his ex-wife's husband who was investing in bad boxers, and tries to help out Joe Louis, who could be charged with the murder. "
Stuart Kaminsky (1934–2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. He wrote sixty books in all and penned twenty-four novels starring the detective Toby Peters, whom he described as “the anti–Philip Marlowe.” In 1981’s Death of a Dissident, he 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. 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, he 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, he wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
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