High Midnight: A Toby Peters Mystery
A Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Mystery book. This is the sixth in the Toby Peters mystery series, published in 1981. I've read several of the others...
Someone wants Gary Cooper to make a movie he isn't interested in making, and whoever it is wants him badly enough to get nasty about it. Cooper takes to the hills, accompanied by a writer named Ernest Hemingway, chased by men with blood in their eyes and murder in their hearts. The problem is that Cooper can't shoot straight and Hemingway can't operate without native bearers and an elephant gun. Toby Peters can't shoot either, but he doesn't need help... much. Just give him a bowl of cereal and time to decide his next move and Toby will get everything straightened out. Now, if he can only keep Lombardi the gangster from making good on his threat to turn him into kosher hot dogs... .
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 188 pages
- ISBN: 9780312372347 / 312372345
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I enjoy the Toby Peters series but this is not one of my favorites. The plot seemed thin and to move rather slow as well as having a few characters that didn't seem to belong. This leaned more heavily toward the research material rather than story. Overall, still a nice read. This time Toby has to protect Gary Cooper from a semi-retired gangster who wants to corner the LA cold cuts market... and make a movie, starring Cooper. Or else.Toss in Ernest Hemingway getting manly and boxing with Toby, a Spanish freedom fighter with delusions of "fascisti" all around, Babe Ruth and some of his baseball friends, and... This is the sixth in the Toby Peters mystery series, published in 1981. I've read several of the others and enjoyed them, and while I also enjoyed this one, I found it to be a little less enjoyable than many of the others. It seemed to move a little slower, and there were characters that didn't seem to really belong in the story.This...