Janice S. (kaffie) reviewed on 4/27/2014 + 17 more book reviews

If you are a film buff and have never read Kaminsky's Toby Peters series, you are in for a treat. Toby is a mild-mannered private detective who ends up being hired by various film personalities. He is helped in his cases by his best friend (who is a little person), his landlord (an ex-wrestler and poet), and a myopic dentist. Kaminsky mangages to make all the oddball characters in his books believable. Most of them are likeable, too.

The references to movie stars and directors are well researched, and the atmosphere of Hollywood in its heyday and of everyday life at the onset of war is the next best thing to a time machine.

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