The Melting Clock (Toby Peters Series #16)

by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Tom Parker (Narrated by)

Overview

In wartime Los Angeles, jobs are scarce for private eye Toby Peters. Into this grind of reality comes a hefty dose of surrealism in the person of Salvador Dali. Dali has seen his latest publicity stunt go fatally, frighteningly wrong. Drawn into a bizarre new world of mustaches without faces and watches melting on the Victory Drugstore grill, Toby has to hunt down precious paintings and priceless clocks, while wading through a growing thicket of bodies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786141579
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	12/19/2006
Series:	Toby Peters Series , #16
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

Stuart Kaminsky received the 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery novel, as well as France's Grand Prix de Roman d'Aventures in 1991. His love of the movies and long career as a professor of film history led him to create the popular and critically acclaimed Toby Peters series. He lives in Florida with his wife and children.

Tom Parker, recipient of the Golden Voice award, records a remarkable variety of books while pursuing his love of theater by directing two or three professional stage productions a year in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Editorial Reviews

Edgar Award winner Kaminsky ( Poor Butterfly ) pairs his 1940s L.A. private investigator Toby Peters with surrealist painter Salvador Dali in the series hero's 16th outrageous escapade. Dali and his wife, Gala, hire Peters to find three paintings and three ornate Russian clocks stolen from their house in Carmel. The only clue is an enigmatic note that, once deciphered with the help of his friend Jeremy Butler, ex-wrestler and poet, leads Peters to a murdered man, one clock and a painting defaced with another coded message. Aided again by Jeremy, Peters discovers another dead man, another clock and another work of art, on which is scrawled the message ``Time is running out. ``Dali confesses planning the theft and the notes as a publicity stunt, but he is horrified by the murders. Peters fears that the painter will be the third victim and enlists the aid of Jeremy and another friend, Gunther, for protection. Once again Kaminsky mixes the real--in this case the surreal--with the fictional for a quick-paced, clever revisionist Hollywood romp. (Dec.)

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