New Releases by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of Not Quite Kosher (2002), Il est minuit, Charlie Chaplin (2002), The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep (2001), A Fine Red Rain (2000), Hidden and Other Stories (1999).

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Not Quite Kosher

release date: Dec 06, 2002
Not Quite Kosher
An Abe Lieberman mystery Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom," says The Washington Post. He loves what he does, but it takes its toll as his commitment to what is right is sorely tested every day on the mean streets of Chicago. As a moral man, he is sometimes faced with some uncomfortable ethical choices in order to see that justice-rather than the letter of the law-is meted out. And in Not Quite Kosher, the latest Abe Lieberman mystery by veteran Edgar Award-winning Stuart Kaminsky, our hangdog sleuth is up to his eyeballs in tsurris, the kind of trouble that will drive a man to madness. From tracking a pair of low-rent thieves who stumble into a heist way over their heads to finding out what happened to a man who predicted his own death in a bizarre twist of fate, not to mention planning for a grandson''s bar mitzvah that threatens to send him to the poorhouse, Lieberman will do much to find a way to make everything right, even if it takes years off his life. And his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahn, the Priest to Lieberman''s Rabbi, is in trouble of his own making. For the woman he loves is the object of affection of one of the kingpins of the Asian crime syndicate in Chicago and the notion of this woman marrying anyone from a different culture is anathema. How far will he go to win the woman he loves? And at what cost? Just another day in the lives of a pair of Chicago''s most amiably odd detective team . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Il est minuit, Charlie Chaplin

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Il est minuit, Charlie Chaplin
Tobias Leo Pevsner, alias Toby Peters, détective privé à Hollywood, est contacté par Charlie Chaplin en personne. Ce dernier a reçu des menaces de la part d''un individu armé. Pour farfelues qu''elles paraissent, elles sont prises au sérieux par l''acteur qui, en ces années de guerre, compte plus d''ennemis que d''amis en Amérique. Avec l''aide de quelques alliés incongrus mais fidèles, Toby finira par confondre un criminel particulièrement manipulateur. En dépit de la noirceur d''une époque marquée par les restrictions et la chasse aux communistes, Kaminsky impose une irrésistible tonalité burlesque à cette histoire où il nous livre une version apocryphe des origines de Monsieur Verdoux.

The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep

release date: May 15, 2001
The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep
Private eye Jim Rockford receives a visit from a girl claiming to be his daughter and she has proof. The girl says her mother, the woman with whom Rockford had an affair, is missing and may have been murdered by her husband. Rockford investigates.

A Fine Red Rain

release date: May 01, 2000
A Fine Red Rain
Moscow''s top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There''s Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There''s young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there''s Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?

Hidden and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Hidden and Other Stories
Kaminsky''s series character Toby Peters appears with John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Lewis Valance and D.W. Griffith in Busted Blossoms. Hidden finds a determined detective searching for the truth when a teenage boy is suspected of savagely killing his family. In Drop Number One, who can tell who is crazy and who is not when three men break out of an insane asylum?

Chico, banco, bobo

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Chico, banco, bobo
Grâce à Stuart Kaminsky la nostalgie n''a pas changé. C''est avec un plaisir chaque fois renouvelé que l''on retrouve au fil des aventures de Toby Peters, l''ex-flic au grand cœur tourné enquêteur privé pour cause d''indépendance d''esprit, le Hollywood de la grande époque et ses monstres sacrés en proie à quelques difficultés passagères intimes ou publiques. Après Errol Flynn, Mae West, Bette Davis et Gary Cooper - entre autres -, c''est au secours des Marx Brothers que notre intrépide héros au dos cassé va se porter cette fois-ci.

La loi de Lieberman

release date: Jan 01, 1999
La loi de Lieberman
Chicago n''accorde décidément pas de repos à Abe Lieberman, flic de 60 ans aux méthodes bien singulières. Alors qu''il prend la place de commerçants coréens pour faire échouer des opérations de racket, le Temple de Mir Shavot, dont sa femme est présidente, est saccagé et la Torah de velours bleu dérobée. Skinheads, terroristes arabes ? Les pistes sont nombreuses et Lieberman va devoir infiltrer ces différents groupes grâce à ses indics et à son associé Haranan. Les choses se compliquent quand trois étudiants arabes sont sauvagement assassinés et que la famille de Lieberman est menacée par les racketteurs coréens... Une intrigue passionnante qui nous plonge dans un Chicago cosmopolite avec ses haines et ses conflits d''intérêts.

Devil on My Doorstep

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Devil on My Doorstep
Jim Rockford finds himself entangled in a dangerous mess when a seventeen-year-old girl claiming to be his daughter shows up on his doorstep and asks for his help in discovering what has happened to her mother, who she thinks may have been killed by her s

Sangue e rubli

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Du sang et des roubles

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Du sang et des roubles
Lors de la réunion de service présidée par Chien-Loup - plus connu en tant que colonel Snitkovoy - l''inspecteur en chef Rostnikov annonce l''ouverture de quatre nouvelles enquêtes. Un enlèvement, le meurtre d''un ivrogne, une fusillade de rue et une saisie d''objets d''art. Autant d''occasions pour Craig Hamilton, agent du FBI en stage au Bureau des Enquêtes Spéciales, de s''initier aux méthodes d''investigation de la police russe. Mais aussi de se frotter à la Russie d''aujourd''hui, où la loi n''a plus guère de valeur et où chacun essaie de survivre à sa manière, à coups de pots-de-vin, de mensonges, de pierres. Si certains y gagnent une aisance matérielle, la plupart y perdent leur intégrité, leurs biens mal acquis... ou leur vie. A l''est, du nouveau pour l''inspecteur-chef Rostnikov, assisté par un ancien adversaire d''hier...

Pour qui sonne le clap

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Pour qui sonne le clap
" Stuart Kaminsky relance Toby Peters, ce privé qui hante les studios d''Hollywood pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Peters, c''est d''abord un anti-héros toujours fauché mais diablement perspicace, un ex-flic au nez cassé par son grand frère et au dos en compote, obligé de dormir sur une planche de bois et qui se nourrit de céréales, largué par une épouse dont il n''arrive pas à faire le deuil. Un grand gamin qui n''arrivera jamais à devenir adulte et qui erre au milieu d''une bande de solitaires aussi brisés par la vie que sa colonne vertébrale" " Patrice Gagnant, Le Progrès. Traduit de l''américain par Simone Hilling

The Rockford Files

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Le caméléon rouge

release date: Feb 01, 1994

Le Flic qui venait du froid

release date: Feb 01, 1994

Generi cinematografici americani

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Les vacances de Rostnikov

release date: Jan 01, 1994

The Man who Shot Lewis Vance

release date: Jan 01, 1990
The Man who Shot Lewis Vance
On a Sunday night in 1942, private eye Toby Peters wakes up in a Los Angeles hotel room with a headache, a corpse on the bed, and John Wayne pointing a pistol between his eyes

Buried Caesers

release date: Jan 01, 1990

American Television Genres

American Television Genres
In this book, Kaminsky and other scholars use the sophisticated critical tools of contemporary literary and film analysis to examine popular American television genres. Critical approaches ranging from historical to anthropological to structural and psychoanalytic are clearly presented and then used to analyze a variety of shows including soap operas, police dramas, game shows, and news programs. Throughout the book the authors explore the ways in ehich the genres of popular television regularly viewed by millions are significant on a cultural and social level. These explorations reveal that popular television can be understood as a rich and complex art form. This book will provide the student with a detailed introduction to the art of television criticism.

A Biographical Study of the Career of Donald Siegel and an Analysis of His Films

You Bet Your Life

You Bet Your Life
This novel is set in Chicago, allowing interaction with Mayor Daley and mobsters such as Frank Nitti. The plot involves Toby trying to get Chico Marx out of a situation arisen from gambling debts, which he says are not his.
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