The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance: A Toby Peters Mystery (The Toby Peters Mysteries #11)

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

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Synopsis: Someone&’s gunning for John Wayne in this &“well-plotted&” mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly). Something about Lewis Vance&’s story doesn&’t add up. The guy claims to be John Wayne&’s stand-in, and he&’s called Det. Toby Peters about a possible job involving the star. But when Peters meets him in a seedy hotel room, Vance slips him a mickey. After Peters comes to, his head pounding, he sees the real John Wayne pointing a .38 at him. Vance was not exactly a dead ringer for the Duke—but he is dead, lying on the hotel bed with a bullet hole drilled in his forehead. And it&’s a dead heat as to who&’s more confused—the gumshoe or the movie star. On screen no one gets the drop on the Duke, but in real life someone&’s trying to kill him. Wayne hires Peters to get to the bottom of things, and soon he&’s tangled up in a twisted conspiracy that also involves a dubious desk clerk named Teddy Spaghetti, the Russians, and none other than the Little Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin. &“As in the other entries in this series, Kaminsky&’s use of period detail and his appealing renderings of real-life celebrities provide the strongest recommendations for this well-plotted mystery.&” —Publishers Weekly