A Fine Red Rain - Softcover

Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074930264X ISBN 13: 9780749302641

Publisher: Mandarin, 1991

Synopsis

A novel featuring the humorous and stoical Russian detective, Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov. Demoted after his clashes with the KGB, Rostnikov and his two unusual assistants set out to solve the murder epidemic in Moscow's richest and poorest districts. The author also wrote "A Cold Red Sunrise".

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About the Author

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934 2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life s work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood s Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote "Bullet for a Star", his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as the anti-Philip Marlowe. In 1981 s "Death of a Dissident", Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mandarin
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074930264X
• ISBN 13: 9780749302641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208