Hired as a bodyguard for diva Bette Davis, this wisecracking Hollywood PI better fasten his seat belt, it's going to be a bumpy night. Bette Davis has three words to describe her hotel hideaway: ';What a dump!' After two days locked in a rented room with the acid-tongued actress, private eye Toby Peters is starting to feel like he's her husbandinstead of Arthur Farnsworthand he wants a divorce. The diva's real hubbyan aeronautics engineer with a head full of government secrets and a gang of blackmailers on his trailhas hired Peters to keep Bette safe from kidnappers. But when thugs burst through the hotel room door, it's almost a relief. Almost... Because Peters still has a job to do. And to rescue the snatched star, he needs to crack a Nazi spy ring while at the same time keeping a bit of indiscreet evidence involving Bette and Howard Hughes from falling into the wrong hands... ';For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner [Stuart M.]Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun' in the Toby Peters mysteries. ';The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek' (Publishers Weekly).
| ISBN: | 9781453234174 |
| Publication date: | 13th December 2011 |
| Author: | Stuart M. Kaminsky |
| Publisher: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |