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Author Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Title The devil met a lady / Stuart M. Kaminsky.

Publication Info. New York : Mysterious Press, [1993]
©1993

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F KAMINSKY M    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC KAMINSKY    Check Shelf
Description 194 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary Why has fabulous Bette Davis - the best known face in the world behind Roosevelt and Hitler - been kidnapped not once, not twice, but three times? What in the world does this star abduction have to do with Third Reich designs on America's plans for a top-secret superbomber? And who else but Hollywood private eye Toby Peters - always short of a nightmare, far from a dream - to plunge into his seventeenth and most hair-raising adventure in pursuit of the answers? It begins with a frantic call from the elegant Arthur Farnsworth, an alcoholic designer of aircraft machinery and, not incidentally, Bette's most current husband. Farnsworth, spinning a tale of illicit passion and brazen blackmail, hires Peters to out-navigate the Nazis, as well as keep an eye on his illustrious wife.
Spending about a third of his waking time on the phone and another third on his back (usually in hospitals). Peters penetrates a hapless spy ring composed of fourth-rate Tinseltown tough guys. He delves far too deeply for his own good into the bedroom peccadillos of America's glitter set. And, as bodies build around him, he sets off to the rescue of a movie goddess. But who'll protect Toby Peters from the divine Miss Davis? The Devil met a Lady heralds the long-awaited reunion of Toby Peters, vintage L.A.'s saltiest hard-boiled sleuth, with the greatest luminaries of the silver screen's golden age.
Subject Peters, Toby (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Davis, Bette, 1908-1989 -- Fiction.
Davis, Bette, 1908-1989 (OCoLC)fst00012063
Motion picture actors and actresses. (OCoLC)fst01027096
Peters, Toby (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst01059212
Private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01077503
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Genre/Form Detective and mystery stories.
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 0892964367
9780892964369
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