Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film

American film genres: Approaches to a critical theory of popular film

Humor & Entertainment

STUART M. KAMINSKY

Movies

Dell Pub. Co.]

Suspense filled novel about a terrorist at the Moscow Film Festival who plots an international incident. Built during the reign of the Tsarist state, Moscow's Metropole Hotel is a poignant reminder of the last regime. But today its corridors are musty and its rooms are dark, but its restaurant is the scene of a quadruple murder. Four men (one American, one Japanese, and two citizens of Russia) share a meal of smoked salmon, caviar, and two bottles of vodka. In the morning, all are found dead, blood on their lips and faces contorted in pain.  To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A terrorist is targeting foreigners to embarrass the Soviet state. The killer is sacrificing any Russian who gets in the way of completing is mission.

Black Knight in Red Square: a Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Charter Books

Red Chameleon

The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . .\nA ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscow's streets . . .\nHigh above the gray city, a sniper is taking aim at police officers, and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . .\n"Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers."\nWashington Post Book World

Charter Book

A collection of shadowy mystery stories includes works by prominent mystery authors and their children and grandchildren, including Jonathan Kellerman, Scott Turow, Joan Lowery Nixon, and Carole Nelson Douglas.

Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories

Children's Books

SHARYN MCCRUMB

Wendy Hornsby

jonathan-kellerman

scott-turow

Joan Lowery. Nixon

Mysteries & Detectives

Random House Books

The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . .A ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscow's streets . . .High above the gray city, a sniper is taking aim at police officers, and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . ."Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers."Washington Post Book World

John McLain

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida. He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything to stay under their rock. He spends his days solving cases both big and small and trying to get by, while attempting to figure out how to make the rest of his life make sense. Retribution not only picks up where the first novel in the series, Vengeance, left off, but raises the bar big-time. Lew has solved his share of cases, and most of them-to his pride-have wound up having happy endings; in Vengeance, he saved a young runaway who has had a childhood nobody should ever have, and she finally seems to be turning her life around. But when she becomes involved with a reclusive best selling author and several valuable manuscripts disappear, Lew knows that young Melanie is in way over her head. And if he doesn't act fast, not only could a few reputations get tarnished--the bodies might start piling up.

Retribution

BOOKS ON TAPE]

Inspector Rostnikov of the Moscow police clashes with the KGB and finds himself on a wintry assignment in the far-flung town of Tumsk, Siberia. There he must discover why two people, one the daughter of a famous dissident, have met with mysterious deaths.

A Cold Red Sunrise

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Mandarin

A Fine Red Rain (An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery)

A Few Minutes Past Midnight

Toby Peters is an unusual private eye. He's already cracked cases involving Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothers, John Wayne and Mae West, and now is gumshoeing for the celebrated screen star Charlie Chaplin. Welcome to Hollywood. Chaplin has cause for alarm. A sinister visitor wielding a large knife has not only rudely paid the movie legend a midnight call but also threatened him with death unless he stops production on his latest project, a film in which wealthy old women are married and then murdered for their money. Chaplin has been warned, too, that he'd better stay away from one Fiona Sullivan. Or else. Fiona, of course, is Toby's only lead.

ORION PAPERBACKS

orion#

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by STUART M. KAMINSKY. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by STUART M. KAMINSKY