{"product_id":"9781453236802","title":"Bullet for a Star (The Toby Peters Mysteries)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: \"Nostalgic fun\" (Publishers Weekly).\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Hollywood, 1940: It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private detective—missing persons and bodyguard work mostly—but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it's a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer five thousand dollars and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e Soon it's up to Peters to clear Flynn's name, following a twisted trail that surprisingly leads to the set of The Maltese Falcon, involving Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. As real-life PI Toby Peters meets Bogie's Sam Spade, he doesn't fall prey to being star-struck. But he may still fall prey to a killer.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \n\u003cbr\u003e \"If you like your mysteries Sam Spade tough, with tongue in cheek and a touch of the theatrical, then the Toby Peters series is just your ticket.\" —Houston Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MysteriousPress.com\/Open Road","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49647219474659,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781453236802-1.jpg?v=1788385944","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781453236802","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}