Stuart M. Kaminsky

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Stuart M. Kaminsky

Born 1934
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation Mystery writer, novelist
Nationality American
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Stuart M. Kaminsky (born 1934)[1] is an award-winning American mystery writer. He is best known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A more recent series follows Florida process-server Lew Fonesca.

Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel A Cold Red Sunrise received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He has earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed, which was also nominated for an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and an Agatha Award. In 2006 Kaminsky received the Grandmaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America.[2]

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[edit] Biography

Kaminsky, who grew up in Chicago,[1] earned a B.S. in journalism and an M.A. in English from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in speech from Northwestern University. He taught film and film history at Northwestern for 16 years, and then taught at Florida State for six years.[3]

Kaminsky's first novel was the 1977 Toby Peters mystery Bullet for a Star. He has since published more than 50 novels as well as story collections and nonfiction works. Kaminsky is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Besides being one of America's most prolific mystery writers, Kaminsky has inspired many other writers in the genre, including fellow Chicagoan Sara Paretsky, who dedicated the first novel in her V. I. Warshawski private-eye series to Kaminsky.[1]

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

  • Toby Peters series
  1. Bullet for a Star (1977)
  2. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (1977)
  3. You Bet Your Life (1978)
  4. The Howard Hughes Affair (1979)
  5. Never Cross a Vampire (1980)
  6. High Midnight (1981)
  7. Catch a Falling Clown (1981)
  8. He Done Her Wrong (1983)
  9. The Fala Factor (1984)
  10. Down for the Count (1985)
  11. The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance (1986)
  12. Smart Moves (1986)
  13. Think Fast, Mr. Peters (1987)
  14. Buried Caesars (1989)
  15. Poor Butterfly (1990)
  16. The Melting Clock (1991)
  17. The Devil Met a Lady (1993)
  18. Tomorrow Is Another Day (1995)
  19. Dancing in the Dark (1996)
  20. A Fatal Glass of Beer (1997)
  21. A Few Minutes Past Midnight (2001)
  22. To Catch a Spy (2002)
  23. Mildred Pierced (2003)
  24. Now You See It (2004)
  • Inspector Rostnikov series
  1. Rostnikov's Corpse (1981)
    (also published as Death of a Dissident)
  2. Black Knight in Red Square (1983)
  3. Red Chameleon (1985)
  4. A Cold Red Sunrise (1987)
  5. A Fine Red Rain (1987)
  6. Rostnikov's Vacation (1991)
  7. The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (1990)
  8. Death of a Russian Priest (1992)
  9. Hard Currency (1995)
  10. Blood and Rubles (1996)
  11. Tarnished Icons (1997)
  12. The Dog Who Bit a Policeman (1998)
  13. Fall of a Cosmonaut (2000)
  14. Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express (2001)
  15. People Who Walk in Darkness (2008)
  • Lew Fonesca series
  1. Vengeance (1999)
  2. Retribution (2001)
  3. Midnight Pass (2003)
  4. Denial (2005)
  5. Always Say Goodbye (2006)
  • Abe Lieberman series
  1. Lieberman's Folly (1990)
  2. Lieberman's Choice (1993)
  3. Lieberman's Day (1994)
  4. Lieberman's Thief (1995)
  5. Lieberman's Law (1996)
  6. The Big Silence (2000)
  7. Not Quite Kosher (2002)
  8. The Last Dark Place (2004)
  9. Terror Town (2006)
  10. The Dead Don't Lie (2007)
  • CSI: New York
  1. Dead of Winter (2005)
  2. Blood on the Sun (2006)
  3. Deluge (2007)
  • Rockford Files novels
  1. The Green Bottle (1996)
  2. Devil on My Doorstep (1998)
  • Non-series
    • When the Dark Man Calls (1983)
    • Exercise in Terror (1985)

[edit] Story collections

  • Hidden and Other Stories (1999)
  • The Man Who Beat the System and Other Stories (Audio) (2000)

[edit] Other fiction

  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    • Fever Pitch (graphic novel, with Christopher Jones and Barbara Schulz) (2003)
    • Kolchak the Night Stalker, Volume 1 (graphic novel, with Joe Gentile and Jeff Rice) (2004)
    • Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles (story anthology, includes "The Night Talker" by Kaminsky) (2005)

[edit] As editor

  • Opening Shots (1991)
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State (1999)
  • Show Business Is Murder (2004)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • A Biographical Study of the Career of Donald Siegel and an Analysis of His Films (1972)
  • Clint Eastwood (1974)
  • American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film (1974)
  • Don Siegel, Director (1974)
  • Ingmar Bergman: Essays in Criticism (1975)
  • John Huston: Maker of Magic (1978)
  • Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper (1979)
  • Basic Filmmaking (with Dana H Hodgdon) (1981)
  • Writing for Television (with Mark Walker) (1988)
  • American Television Genres (1991)
  • Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed (Interviews by Kaminsky; photographs by Laurie Roberts) (2005)

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Murder Is His Business: by J. Kingston Pierce. January Magazine (August 2002). Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
  2. ^ Edgar Award Winners & Nominees database. Mystery Writers of America (c2006). Retrieved on 2008-02-19.
  3. ^ "Interview with Stuart Kaminsky". Mystery One Bookstore (2002-08-28). Retrieved on 2008-02-19.

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NAME Kaminsky, Stuart M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist, mystery writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH