Never Cross a Vampire (A Toby Peters Mystery) [Paperback]

Stuart M. Kaminsky (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Toby Peters Mystery | Publication Date: October 3, 2000

The time is January 1942, and Toby Peters' services have just been retained by the private eye's strangest client: Bela Lugosi, who, over a decade after frightening millions of Americans with his depiction of the notorious Count Dracula, is now being stalked by a very real, very deadly, all-too-human creature of darkness intent on punishing the fading actor for perceived slights made against the vapiric race. Before Peters can get a handle on the situation, though, his business suddenly doubles in sound and fury when William Faulkner, the nation's most distinguished author gone Hollywood, is accused of killing a movie agent he hardly knew. Can even Peters find the connection between the two cases before he falls prey to the sinister machinations of the children of the night...?

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Parker consistently sustains the individuality and personality of each of the characters he creates, in spite of the many secondary characters. P.A.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: I Books; First Ibooks Printing edition (October 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074340713X
• ISBN-13: 978-0743407137
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #802,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the better Toby Peters mysteries, January 24, 2001

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Brendt Waters (Kennesaw, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Cross a Vampire (A Toby Peters Mystery) (Paperback)

I have read and enjoyed most (if not all) of the Toby Peters mysteries, and this was one of the better ones. Toby represents both Bela Lugosi and William Faulkner at the same time -- Lugosi is being stalked, Faulkner is accused of murder -- and the cases quickly become entwined, with Toby not knowing where one case ends and the other begins. One of the differences to this book (that I don't remember in any other) is that it doesn't begin with the "bad guy" chasing or confronting Toby. There *is* some flashback, but it is expository. As usual, the era references are interesting, and in the re-printed version (that came out in October 2000) there is an good afterword by Kaminsky about the Peters novels and about Bela Lugosi.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bela Lugosi returns from the Grave....AGAIN!, June 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Never-Cross A-Vampire (Paperback)

I read "Never Cross a Vampire" almost ten years ago and I enjoyed the endearing portrait of Bela Lugosi. The book also features a cameo by Boris Karloff and does not shrink from his rivalry with Lugosi. It is fun to read how a "B-Movie Star Villain" can save the day.

Also, the Asian Professor's account on the myth of internation vampires deserves special mention.

5.0 out of 5 stars lugosi as a character great stuff, January 13, 2009

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lovemurakami "tooty2" (uk) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Cross a Vampire (A Toby Peters Mystery) (Paperback)

I love the Toby Peters series I wish they were re issued over here in the UK they are great stories, each covers a specific movie star involved in some sort of crime story. They are well written and highly enjoyable reads and I wish I could get more than I own. In this one Toby finds himself helping out Bela Lugosi (the clue to the star is in the title)