Dancing in the Dark

By Stuart M. Kaminsky

Book Overview

While WW II rages in Europe, Toby Peters is caught up in his own war in Hollywood. Luna, a blonde beauty, wants to learn to dance, and her mobster boyfriend wants Fred Astaire to teach her. Toby gets called in to get the untalented and rather loose Luna off Fred's back--and every other part of his anatomy. Dancing as fast as he can, Toby must unmask a fast-footed killer, and keep America's favorite hoofer from trading in his tap shoes for cement galoshes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892965282
• ISBN13: 9780892965281
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Deft and dexterous Hollywood mystery

The Toby Peters mysteries are set in Hollywood during the 1930's and 1940's and they always involve Peters ,a PI ,becoming involved with the luminaries of the movie world .This time it is Fred Astaire who engages his services .The great hoofer is being inveighled into giving free dance lessons to the paramour of one Arthur Forbes ,a Detroit mobster who goes by the nickname Fingers Intaglia from his anti-social habit of removing the said digits from his numerous victims .Peters poses as a dance tutor and tries to persuade the lady not to take up the lessons .However things rapidly get more complicated when murder rears its ugly head .The lady in question is murdered folowed soon by the owner of a shady dance academy where she used to work and then by Forbes himself .Peters ,aided by Astaire ,sets out to track down the killer or killers Astaire ,like all the stars in the series' books ,receives sympathetic treatment and is shown as a dab hand in a fight as well as being something of a police junkie well used to riding in squad cars as a guest of the force The usual colourful support cast is in evidence -Peter's eccentric landlady and her interminable family history ,Jeremy the poetic ex-wrestler,Shelodon Minck the world's worst dentist The book,like others in the series ,is light and diveting being full of charm and a great love of movies and movie people ,the whole series being thoroughly recommendable to all who enjoy vintage cinema as well as a good mystery