DescriptionIn the spring of 1942, Joe DiMaggio's enjoying a much better season than either General MacArthur in Corregidor or private eye Toby Peters in Hollywood. Blond bombshell Mae West has just finished her book, a sensational tell-all life story that could turn Tinsel Town into scandal city. When the screed's stolen from under her generous form by a mysterious psychopath, Peters comes up to see her and agrees to take the case. Before he can tell his famously curvilinear client who's done her wrong, he finds himself the target of a cross-dressing killer, captive of a methodically mad doctor, and the preview audience for a big-screen plot that threatens not only Mae, but master of spectacle Cecil B. DeMille.
DescriptionPrivate eye Toby Peters follows boxing as much as the next guy, but he never expected to encounter heavyweight champion Joe Louis this way: covered with blood and standing on a deserted beach next to the corpse of Peters's ex-wife's husband. The champ is…
DescriptionToby Peters, the Hollywood private eye who has previously saved the likes of Judy Garland, Gary Cooper, and the Marx Brothers, is back. This time there's trouble under the big top, and his services are required by none other than Emmett Kelly. A circus elephant has been electrocuted, and Kelly fears for his life. Toby goes undercover as a clown and becomes entangled with a cast of bizarre characters, including a 250-pound wrestler/poet, a beautiful snake charmer, an immaculately dressed Swiss midget, and a baffling witness named Alfred Hitchcock. It's all in a day's work for Toby Peters, and in another fast-paced '40s era mad-cap adventure for his fans.
DescriptionToby Peters looked at the glossy photograph. Yes, that was Errol Flynn in the picture. And, yes, there was a girl with him...a very young girl. They were both birthday naked, and seemed to be enjoying themselves. No wonder Flynn and Warner Brothers were nervous; if the photograph wasn't a fake, the studio's investment in the star was in serious jeopardy. Toby found the picture where he was supposed to find it. He wasn't planning to get hit on the head, though, or to find a corpse when he awoke. The first of a series of corpses, scattered all over Hollywood. The trail Toby follows in order to clear Flynn, and himself, takes him throughout the film colony and finally onto the set of The Maltese Falcom, where Bogie, Lorre, and Greenstreet find themselves playing roles that aren't rehearsed, but whose execution has to be picture perfect.
DescriptionPay him a little bit, he's a little bit tough. Pay very much, he's very much tough. Pay too much, he's too much tough. 1940s Hollywood private eye Toby Peters returns, unfortunately, with an awful case of the flu. Peters is coughing and sniffling his way through the Chicago underworld in a desperate attempt to clear the name of Chico Marx, who is accused of owing $120, 000 in gambling debts to the mob. In addition to gangsters, Peters has to deal with Chico's partners. One of them doesn't speak, he's a silent partner, and the other one goes around with a black mustache. Though if he had his choice, he'd go around with a little blonde. Things may be looking rough, but with the help of a few other tough guys who're siding with him, Al Capone, Richard Daley, and Ian Fleming, Peters just may have a chance.
