The Devil Met a Lady: A Toby Peters Mystery (The Toby Peters Mysteries #17)

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

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Synopsis: 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 husband—instead of Arthur Farnsworth—and he wants a divorce. The diva&’s real hubby—an aeronautics engineer with a head full of government secrets and a gang of blackmailers on his trail—has 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).