You Bet Your Life
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Toby Peters goes to Chicago to clear up a famous comic's gambling debts.
There's nothing funny about the package that comes for Chico Marx. It's a severed ear, a simple message from a Chicago bookie who wants $120,000 from the world-renown Marx brother. The strange thing is that, though Chico likes to gamble, he hasn't been making bets in Chicago. Terrified, he goes to the studio for help. Louis B. Mayer, king of Hollywood, places a call to Toby Peters.
Peters's first lead is promising. Traveling on the studio's dime, he makes his way to Florida where he gets an interview with Al Capone, deposed lord of the Chicago underworld. The retired bootlegger's mind has gone soft, and he doesn't know anything about Chico's bookie, but he suggests Peters speak to his brother. With Scarface's good word as an introduction, Peters goes to Chicago, where it will take more than a good sense of humor to keep the Marxes from getting axed.
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Stuart M. Kaminsky was the author of more than 60 novels and an Edgar Award winner who was given the coveted Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. His series include the Lew Fonesca, Inspector Rostnikov, Toby Peters, and Abe Lieberman mysteries, which includes such titles as Terror Town, The Last Dark Place, and Not Quite Kosher. He passed away in the fall of 2009.
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Reviews for You Bet Your Life
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Still fun but not as good as the last one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting period (40s) detective story with our PI attempting to rescue Chico Marx from a debt. Interesting writing, fun, and a relatively solid plot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Bet Your Life by Stuart Kaminisky is the third entry in his series featuring Toby Peters, a 1940s private detective who is under contract to MGM studios in Hollywood. Although this one was my least favourite of the three that I have read so far, probably because the setting was 1940s Chicago instead of Hollywood, it was still a fun read.Toby is instructed to look into payment of gambling debts that the Chicago Mob are demanding from Chico Marx, even though Chico swears that these are not his debts. Even with Toby suffering from the flu throughout most of the book he is able to untwist this mob rip-off story with lots of humor and action. The addition of the Marx Brothers to the story went a long way toward my reader satisfaction, but the appearance of some other famous names of the times – Al Capone, Richard J. Daley and Ian Fleming for example, didn’t particularly ring true.I will certainly be continuing on with this series as I enjoy these quick moving, clever mysteries set in the 1940s.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love all the Toby Peters series of books!! This one has the Marx Brothers and Ian Flemming making guest appearances. Since most of it is in Chicago, we do not meet our usual cast of characters, but still a fun story.