New Releases by Stuart M. Kaminsky

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.

Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attourney''s Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attourneys. Now, Lew is hired by Carl Sebastian, one of Lew''s lawyer''s clients, to find his missing wife. Following up on a few leads, Lew finds himself being trailed by a mysterious burly man, and saddled with another missing person case -- this time a runaway teen. With the help of some friends, Lew seems to be getting closer and closer to Melanie -- but will he find her before the unthinkable happens? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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?

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?

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.

A classic Rockford case involves retrieving stolen property, locating a cat for an eccentric, wealthy old lady, thugs out to rearrange Rockford''s anatomy, and a hunt that turns deadly when a beautiful woman in search of Hollywood fame turns up missing.

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

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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his colleagues battle against a conspiracy to assassinate a politburo member, a bomb scare at Lenin''s tomb, and abounding corruption

Spells out how to break into the field of television writing, offering commentary from veteran TV producers on how to tell a story for television, structuring, professional specifications, and how to sell stories

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.

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.