Stuart kaminsky biography

He doesn't come off as a killer. Yet Stuart M. Kaminsky has been honing his homicidal talents for 25 years, leaving bodies in parks and on pool tables, plunging rusty sickles into Russian dissidents, stopping munchkins dead in their tracks and even puncturing a fledgling vampire with a wooden stake. All in the spirit of entertainment. All because he can. All because he's so damn good at it.

A film historian, former college professor, screenwriter, biographer and author of 49 murder mysteries (so far), Kaminsky first became a published novelist in 1977, with the release of Bullet for a Star. A lighthearted twist on classic, hard-boiled American detective fiction, Bullet introduced Toby Peters (née Pevsner), a disheveled, divorced and taco-loving former security officer with Warner Brothers Studio, who'd been fired in 1936 (after "breaking the arm of a Western star who had made the mistake of thinking he was as tough in person as he was on the screen"), and subse