Hollywood 1942: detective Toby Peters agrees to track down whomever is sending death threats to Bela Lugosi. The case deepens when William Faulkner is accused of shooting an agent, and Peters realizes he must find the elusive connection between the two cases--before the death threats become all too real.
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, Kaminsky penned more than sixty novels over his lifetime. In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. He died in St. Louis in 2009.