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Title details for The Melting Clock by Stuart M. Kaminsky - Available

The Melting Clock

#16 in series

by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Tom Parker
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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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Toby Peters Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    December 19, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780786141579
      • File size: 147844 KB
      • Duration: 05:08:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Written in a style similar to Dashiell Hammett's, this Toby Peters crime story is read with the panache and drama of the strong, silent type. Reminding one of Humphrey Bogart when he played Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, Parker, with tongue firmly in cheek, reads Kaminsky's succinct descriptions of the quirky Salvador Dali and his entourage; listeners can almost hear him drag on a cigarette and see it dangling from his lip. Set in wartime L.A., the story draws Toby into a bizarre art world of mustaches without faces, crumbling stone women and melting watches. This one keeps listeners tuned in for the big finish. S.C.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 2, 1991
      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.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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