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Toby Peters #20
A Fatal Glass of Beer
What an amazing--and not famous enough by half--mystery writer Stuart M. Kaminsky is! By last count, he has been doing excellent work in three very different series: his sad and pungent books about Russian detective Porfiry Petrovich (Blood and Rubles, etc.); his gritty, poignant stories about aging Chicago cop Abe Lieberman (starting with Lieberman's Day); and his richly-detailed series about vintage Hollywood private eye Toby Peters. This 20th installment is one of the best, as Peters is hired by W. C. Fields to find the blackguard who is looting all of the comedian's secret bank accounts, carefully hidden under such fake names as Cormorant Beecham and Quigley E. Sneersight. Other Peters period adventures in paperback: Dancing in the Dark, He Done Her Wrong, Think Fast, Mr. Peters.
246 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1997
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Stuart M. Kaminsky
161 books215 followersStuart M. Kaminsky wrote 50 published novels, 5 biographies, 4 textbooks and 35 short stories. He also has screenwriting credits on four produced films including ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, ENEMY TERRITORY, A WOMAN IN THE WIND and HIDDEN FEARS. He was a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and was nominated for six prestigious Edgar Allen Poe Awards including one for his short story “Snow” in 1999. He won an Edgar for his novel A COLD RED SUNRISE, which was also awarded the Prix De Roman D’Aventure of France. He was nominated for both a Shamus Award and a McCavity Readers Choice Award.
Kaminsky wrote several popular series including those featuring Lew Fonesca, Abraham Lieberman, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters. He also wrote two original "Rockford Files " novels. He was the 50th annual recipient of the Grandmaster 2006 for Lifetime Achievement from the Mystery Writers of America.
Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievement award) in 2007.
His nonfiction books including BASIC FILMMAKING, WRITING FOR TELEVISION, AMERICAN FILM GENRES, and biographies of GARY COOPER, CLINT EASTWOOD, JOHN HUSTON and DON SIEGEL. BEHIND THE MYSTERY was published by Hot House Press in 2005 and nominated by Mystery Writers of America for Best Critical/Biographical book in 2006.
Kaminsky held 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 where he taught for 16 years before becoming a Professor at Florida State. where he headed the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. He left Florida State in 1994 to pursue full-time writing.
Kaminsky and his wife, Enid Perll, moved to St. Louis, Missouri in March 2009 to await a liver transplant to treat the hepatitis he contracted as an army medic in the late 1950s in France. He suffered a stroke two days after their arrival in St. Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009.
Kaminsky wrote several popular series including those featuring Lew Fonesca, Abraham Lieberman, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters. He also wrote two original "Rockford Files " novels. He was the 50th annual recipient of the Grandmaster 2006 for Lifetime Achievement from the Mystery Writers of America.
Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievement award) in 2007.
His nonfiction books including BASIC FILMMAKING, WRITING FOR TELEVISION, AMERICAN FILM GENRES, and biographies of GARY COOPER, CLINT EASTWOOD, JOHN HUSTON and DON SIEGEL. BEHIND THE MYSTERY was published by Hot House Press in 2005 and nominated by Mystery Writers of America for Best Critical/Biographical book in 2006.
Kaminsky held 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 where he taught for 16 years before becoming a Professor at Florida State. where he headed the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. He left Florida State in 1994 to pursue full-time writing.
Kaminsky and his wife, Enid Perll, moved to St. Louis, Missouri in March 2009 to await a liver transplant to treat the hepatitis he contracted as an army medic in the late 1950s in France. He suffered a stroke two days after their arrival in St. Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009.
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May 9, 2020
Toby Peters and WC Fields go on a cross country trip. It seems that over the course of his long career, Fields put various sums of money in local banks all over the country. Somebody stole all of his bank books, and is now trying to withdraw all of his money.
It's very good. WC Fields is a sad, isolated individual. Peters gets in over his head, but still manages to figure it all out.
Recommended.
It's very good. WC Fields is a sad, isolated individual. Peters gets in over his head, but still manages to figure it all out.
Recommended.
April 27, 2024
This was so much fun with both the craziness of W.C. Fields and a real mystery to solve. This is the first Toby Peters series I have read and won't be my last. The Audiobook with Fields voice was pitch-perfect.
July 6, 2021
Aspects of A Fatal Glass of Beer are racist, misogynistic, and pedophobic. But how could they be otherwise when reflecting the misanthropic, deliberately outrageous persona of W. C. Fields during a period of anti-Asian sentiment and anti-Nazi, Communist-suspicious anxiety? A Fatal Glass of Beer upholds the mythos surrounding William Claude Dukenfield, but it also allows some of the humanity to show in acts of generosity and empathy (though rare) that the “character” portrayed both on-screen and in real-life (perhaps, accurately psycho-analyzed by the wrestler/landlord/poet who owns the office building where protagonist and Private Investigator Toby Peters’ office is located) insists he would emphatically deny if revealed.
As with all of the Stuart M. Kaminsky novels featuring Toby Peters which I have read, A Fatal Glass of Beer features humor (both in dialogue patter and situational awkwardness), bodily harm inflicted on the protagonist, Hollywood gossip, name-dropping, significant dream sequences featuring Max Fleischer’s iconic characters (particularly Koko the clown and Betty Boop), murder, and enough murders to keep a television series going for half a season. There are gunfights and car chases roughly equal to the number of red herrings that Kaminsky throws at the reader.
Not only am I personally a sucker (and we never give one of those an even break, do we?) for period pieces from this era before I was born, but I love Kaminsky’s writing style for these volumes which are like Sam Spade-lite. They take place in a world as corrupt as those of Hammett’s and Chandler’s protagonists, but the word palette isn’t as dark and gloomy. Kaminsky himself being something of a film historian and cinema enthusiast (In addition to writing almost a dozen non-fiction books on film, film history, and film professionals, he wrote the screenplay for Enemy Territory, had a novel adapted for a Catharine Deneuve film, and wrote a teleplay for the brief Nero Wolfe series), the film industry aspects are intriguing. In addition, I simply love references to consumer products no longer with us today (as a fan of old radio programs, I couldn’t help but get a kick out of the reference to “Rinso white, Rinso white, happy little washday song!” even though I hated when episodes of suspense and thriller shows were interrupted by that little whistling introduction followed by the “happy little washday song.”).
In A Fatal Glass of Beer, the plot has something of a “buddy movie” feel. Of course, as the enigmatic Juanita (waitress and Gypsy fortune-teller) informs Toby early on, one of the persons for which they will be searching is already dead with two more on the way. The first death turns out to be the real “buddy” of the picture and entirely true to the accounts of the real-life character who was dead. Yet, for roughly 2/3 of the book, it looks like Fields and Peters are intended to be the buddies. The journey is following an imposter who is reaping Fields’ stashes of money, deposited along the continental vaudeville circuits by Fields using his dubious phony names (a sample from the book would include: Otis T. Raisincluster, Quigley E. Sneersight, Ogle P. Thurp, Dedalus Krim, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, and Cormorant Beecham the Third). Along the way, as Peters deals out obscure clues and red herrings like Ricky Jay performing a demonstration of card control, Kaminsky manipulates characters to show prejudice for what it is, shallow empty narcissism reflecting personal insecurity. He demonstrates that “popular” prejudices against Asians, blacks, and Native Americans are grossly near-sighted and unrealistic. I particularly liked the part where W. C. Fields uses a speech that is supposed to be against certain races to demonstrate the virtues of individuals within said races.
The real villain in A Fatal Glass of Beer is telegraphed throughout the novel, at least once the “buddy movie” gets going. The red herrings help distract the reader but were never really convincing to me (I suppose that’s how it should be). But all in all, A Fatal Glass of Beer features several hours of enjoyment, including a desire to read some lines aloud in outrageous imitation of the late comedian as an homage to his love of euphony—VERY effectively transmitted in the novel.
As with all of the Stuart M. Kaminsky novels featuring Toby Peters which I have read, A Fatal Glass of Beer features humor (both in dialogue patter and situational awkwardness), bodily harm inflicted on the protagonist, Hollywood gossip, name-dropping, significant dream sequences featuring Max Fleischer’s iconic characters (particularly Koko the clown and Betty Boop), murder, and enough murders to keep a television series going for half a season. There are gunfights and car chases roughly equal to the number of red herrings that Kaminsky throws at the reader.
Not only am I personally a sucker (and we never give one of those an even break, do we?) for period pieces from this era before I was born, but I love Kaminsky’s writing style for these volumes which are like Sam Spade-lite. They take place in a world as corrupt as those of Hammett’s and Chandler’s protagonists, but the word palette isn’t as dark and gloomy. Kaminsky himself being something of a film historian and cinema enthusiast (In addition to writing almost a dozen non-fiction books on film, film history, and film professionals, he wrote the screenplay for Enemy Territory, had a novel adapted for a Catharine Deneuve film, and wrote a teleplay for the brief Nero Wolfe series), the film industry aspects are intriguing. In addition, I simply love references to consumer products no longer with us today (as a fan of old radio programs, I couldn’t help but get a kick out of the reference to “Rinso white, Rinso white, happy little washday song!” even though I hated when episodes of suspense and thriller shows were interrupted by that little whistling introduction followed by the “happy little washday song.”).
In A Fatal Glass of Beer, the plot has something of a “buddy movie” feel. Of course, as the enigmatic Juanita (waitress and Gypsy fortune-teller) informs Toby early on, one of the persons for which they will be searching is already dead with two more on the way. The first death turns out to be the real “buddy” of the picture and entirely true to the accounts of the real-life character who was dead. Yet, for roughly 2/3 of the book, it looks like Fields and Peters are intended to be the buddies. The journey is following an imposter who is reaping Fields’ stashes of money, deposited along the continental vaudeville circuits by Fields using his dubious phony names (a sample from the book would include: Otis T. Raisincluster, Quigley E. Sneersight, Ogle P. Thurp, Dedalus Krim, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, and Cormorant Beecham the Third). Along the way, as Peters deals out obscure clues and red herrings like Ricky Jay performing a demonstration of card control, Kaminsky manipulates characters to show prejudice for what it is, shallow empty narcissism reflecting personal insecurity. He demonstrates that “popular” prejudices against Asians, blacks, and Native Americans are grossly near-sighted and unrealistic. I particularly liked the part where W. C. Fields uses a speech that is supposed to be against certain races to demonstrate the virtues of individuals within said races.
The real villain in A Fatal Glass of Beer is telegraphed throughout the novel, at least once the “buddy movie” gets going. The red herrings help distract the reader but were never really convincing to me (I suppose that’s how it should be). But all in all, A Fatal Glass of Beer features several hours of enjoyment, including a desire to read some lines aloud in outrageous imitation of the late comedian as an homage to his love of euphony—VERY effectively transmitted in the novel.
November 27, 2023
So with this, the Toby Peters series is done.
(Yes, there are some more after this, but for various reasons I skipped this one on the main readthrough and circled back to it.)
I’ve enjoyed my trip across these 26 books, but I wouldn’t recommend them for everyone. It really does require you to be a fan of the LA private eye genre, a fan of classic Hollywood and able to enjoy gentle jokes about the stars. Actually, that description seems like it would be more wide ranging than I thought when I started on the sentence. TCM exists after all. So I’m sure these books will continue to have at least a cult following from those of us who love old black and white celluloid.
As always with these series, me being au fait with the guest celebrity does increase the chances of me enjoying it. And although he died thirty years before I was born, I do have a fascination with W.C. Fields. His humorous, yet sad and embittered, tones are perfectly captured here.
I will miss Toby. And Gunther. And Jeremy. And Phil. And even Sheldon and Mrs Plaut. It’s been a great world to explore, and it’s made me happy to think of these old stars joining in these crazy mysteries. I wish we’d got a few more, but given they make a good-sized collection already, that’s me being greedy. Hats off to Stuart Kaminsky. It was a great idea for a detective series, and I’m glad he went for it.
(Yes, there are some more after this, but for various reasons I skipped this one on the main readthrough and circled back to it.)
I’ve enjoyed my trip across these 26 books, but I wouldn’t recommend them for everyone. It really does require you to be a fan of the LA private eye genre, a fan of classic Hollywood and able to enjoy gentle jokes about the stars. Actually, that description seems like it would be more wide ranging than I thought when I started on the sentence. TCM exists after all. So I’m sure these books will continue to have at least a cult following from those of us who love old black and white celluloid.
As always with these series, me being au fait with the guest celebrity does increase the chances of me enjoying it. And although he died thirty years before I was born, I do have a fascination with W.C. Fields. His humorous, yet sad and embittered, tones are perfectly captured here.
I will miss Toby. And Gunther. And Jeremy. And Phil. And even Sheldon and Mrs Plaut. It’s been a great world to explore, and it’s made me happy to think of these old stars joining in these crazy mysteries. I wish we’d got a few more, but given they make a good-sized collection already, that’s me being greedy. Hats off to Stuart Kaminsky. It was a great idea for a detective series, and I’m glad he went for it.
October 24, 2020
I believe this chalks up to my favorite of the Peters tales. It does seem far fetched, except Fields lived a bit of a far fetched life and did deposit money in banks all over the place. Gets one to wonder just how the Fields family got all of that money from such a list of banks.
Kaminsky was often excellent at getting the voice of the celebrity starring in his books of Peters. Huge exception are his two Rockford Files books. Here, I can hear Fields voice throughout the book. The banter is terrific and full of Fileds well known outrageous storytelling. Peters is played down quite a bit here. Almost a co-star despite the book being in first person.
The story of why there is, essentially, a great chase is ridiculous as is the ending, but stilla great book.
About Florida: One of the stories Fields tells is of having a kumquat farm near Homosassa and that being ruined by alligators. The tale is told and sounds as Fields. i know no truth to the story. Extremely well done and thought out by Kaminsky, including using an actual Florida location and such location as kumquats are usually grown!
Bottom line: i recommend this book. 8 out of ten points.
Kaminsky was often excellent at getting the voice of the celebrity starring in his books of Peters. Huge exception are his two Rockford Files books. Here, I can hear Fields voice throughout the book. The banter is terrific and full of Fileds well known outrageous storytelling. Peters is played down quite a bit here. Almost a co-star despite the book being in first person.
The story of why there is, essentially, a great chase is ridiculous as is the ending, but stilla great book.
About Florida: One of the stories Fields tells is of having a kumquat farm near Homosassa and that being ruined by alligators. The tale is told and sounds as Fields. i know no truth to the story. Extremely well done and thought out by Kaminsky, including using an actual Florida location and such location as kumquats are usually grown!
Bottom line: i recommend this book. 8 out of ten points.
February 17, 2024
I'm not changing my rating, for this reread. I always enjoy Toby's adventures.
Over his career, W.C. Fields has put his savings in dozens of banks, around America, all under ludicrous fake names. Someone has stolen half of his bankbooks and is withdrawing the funds. Toby is enlisted to drive around the country with Fields, trying to catch up to the dastardly villain. Along for the ride is Gunther Werthman, Toby's 3-foot tall friend and fellow boarder at Mrs. Plaut's boardinghouse.
It would be fairly light, if only Juanita, the psychic who works out of the same building Toby's office is, hadn't given him an unrequested fortune. She warned him that two would die. And, of course, Juanita's never wrong.
On top of that, Toby's ex-wife is getting married, for the third time, and Toby's invited to the reception (but not the wedding).
And Toby? He tries to keep his head down, avoid the many, many bullets, and hope his back won't go out. Again.
Over his career, W.C. Fields has put his savings in dozens of banks, around America, all under ludicrous fake names. Someone has stolen half of his bankbooks and is withdrawing the funds. Toby is enlisted to drive around the country with Fields, trying to catch up to the dastardly villain. Along for the ride is Gunther Werthman, Toby's 3-foot tall friend and fellow boarder at Mrs. Plaut's boardinghouse.
It would be fairly light, if only Juanita, the psychic who works out of the same building Toby's office is, hadn't given him an unrequested fortune. She warned him that two would die. And, of course, Juanita's never wrong.
On top of that, Toby's ex-wife is getting married, for the third time, and Toby's invited to the reception (but not the wedding).
And Toby? He tries to keep his head down, avoid the many, many bullets, and hope his back won't go out. Again.
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July 24, 2011Some time ago I learned the tale about W.C. Fields and his bank accounts, mostly under pseudonyms, across the country. This mystery is a great story about his efforts to redeem the money. Once again Toby Peters saves the day and learns all, the advances in his personal life aren't too shabby either.
July 4, 2022
It's a Toby Peters mystery-- but as usual, the star of the novel is the guest star. In this case it is the often imitated W.C. Fields. Fields promptly takes center stage and begins to bull his way through this story in what quickly becomes a hilarious farce.
By design, Peters is perfectly cast as the less than perfect private investigator who somehow gets his business from the Hollywood elite. Why do I say less than perfect? Peters can't shoot. He also has a bad back. He is haunted by dreams of Koko the clown. By being a little less than heroic, Kaminsky allows the guest star to take center stage.
Fields, always the eccentric, has opened bank accounts since his youth, all over the country. As if that wasn't crazy enough craziness, he has opened those accounts under names that are as wild and eccentric as he is. The passbooks are stolen and a joker leaves a taunting note telling how he is going to withdraw the funds. Peters and Fields set out to stop the taunting thief and end up in one comical debacle after another-- The high point of this adventure occurs when they stumble into a Ku Klux Klan rally and Fields is asked to speak... A funnier speech you will never read. Fields is asked to disparage other races and manages to give a speech that honors Jews, Blacks, and Native Americans that is so convoluted that the Klansmen are confused enough to not know what he is really saying...
This one is worth reading, if just for that speech... Kaminsky manages to write dialogue that sounds exactly like Fields in the movies. I've enjoyed this more than any book I have read in ages. Pure fun... and there is a mystery worth reading, too.
By design, Peters is perfectly cast as the less than perfect private investigator who somehow gets his business from the Hollywood elite. Why do I say less than perfect? Peters can't shoot. He also has a bad back. He is haunted by dreams of Koko the clown. By being a little less than heroic, Kaminsky allows the guest star to take center stage.
Fields, always the eccentric, has opened bank accounts since his youth, all over the country. As if that wasn't crazy enough craziness, he has opened those accounts under names that are as wild and eccentric as he is. The passbooks are stolen and a joker leaves a taunting note telling how he is going to withdraw the funds. Peters and Fields set out to stop the taunting thief and end up in one comical debacle after another-- The high point of this adventure occurs when they stumble into a Ku Klux Klan rally and Fields is asked to speak... A funnier speech you will never read. Fields is asked to disparage other races and manages to give a speech that honors Jews, Blacks, and Native Americans that is so convoluted that the Klansmen are confused enough to not know what he is really saying...
This one is worth reading, if just for that speech... Kaminsky manages to write dialogue that sounds exactly like Fields in the movies. I've enjoyed this more than any book I have read in ages. Pure fun... and there is a mystery worth reading, too.
November 10, 2025
Stuart M. Kaminsky’s Toby Peters novel, A Fatal Glass of Beer, is an unusual entry in the series in that most of the book consists of a road trip with W.C.Fields and Gunthar Whertman as fellow travelers. Kaminsky clearly relishes writing dialogue for Fields in the comic’s rococo style with lengthy humorous bits of circumlocution predominating. The adventures are episodic and picaresque and the quest to recover money from Fields’ many bank accounts never falters. Particularly funny is a scene where Fields addresses a crowd at a Klan rally.
Changes abound in this novel: a new office for Toby, a boyfriend for Mrs. Plaut, a crisis for Shelly, loss of a body part for Toby and more.
All in all, a very satisfying romp. I look forward to rereading the final four entries in this series.
Highly recommended.
Changes abound in this novel: a new office for Toby, a boyfriend for Mrs. Plaut, a crisis for Shelly, loss of a body part for Toby and more.
All in all, a very satisfying romp. I look forward to rereading the final four entries in this series.
Highly recommended.
November 17, 2022
Toby Peters, private detective, is hired by W.C. Fields to stop someone from stealing all the money that Fields has deposited over the years under fictional names in a large number of banks across the country. Someone has stolen many of the bank books and is forging his names.
This was an exceptionally good Peters mystery. Still quite formulaic, but better than most of them.
This was an exceptionally good Peters mystery. Still quite formulaic, but better than most of them.
October 1, 2019
Most of the books in this series are out of print and hard to find....too bad, they're very enjoyable and improved steadily throughout their run (at least the ones I've found).
This is a particularly fun adventure/mystery with the great William Claude Dukenfield.
This is a particularly fun adventure/mystery with the great William Claude Dukenfield.
March 6, 2023
You will love it. The
A delight for Fields fans. A twisty mystery that I thought was solved three times before I got it right. Toby's ability to get injured in new and different places is only matched by the number of times he shoots what he means to.!? Really quirky.
A delight for Fields fans. A twisty mystery that I thought was solved three times before I got it right. Toby's ability to get injured in new and different places is only matched by the number of times he shoots what he means to.!? Really quirky.
May 23, 2018
W.C. Fields
June 11, 2021
I've read the entire series; this is one of the best. Mr. Kaminsky has captured W.C. Fields' voice very well. The book is funny and the plot kept me guessing.
May 15, 2022
Toby's client is W.C Fields.
July 10, 2024
Mais um volume desta série, este incluindo uma roadtrip com um VIP fora da caixa.
Rapidamente a tornar-se o meu autor de hard boiled preferido.
Rapidamente a tornar-se o meu autor de hard boiled preferido.
January 9, 2026
I'm not a huge fan of WC Fields, but it was entertaining. Kudos to the narrator for nailing the voice.
August 11, 2025
The Toby Peters books are a bit of nostalgia wrapped around a cozy mystery. This one features W.C. Fields. The story is pretty silly but enjoyable. I think it is mostly a look into the character of Fields.
November 28, 2013
I had actually thought that this was the last book in the Toby Peters series; I was surprised to learn here that there are still four more. I will probably seek them out, but not with any sense of urgency, as the character seemed to be becoming played out in the books right before this one.
Still, I was quite pleasantly pleased at how much I enjoyed this book, more than any since You Bet Your Life. WC Fields made for excellent client material. Kaminsky's taking Peters and Fields back to Philadelphia was amusingly done. Fields is mostly the Fields that we know from the movies, and other biographies have suggested that this was not his persona to the degree that Kaminsky portrays him. But it was still a good read, and in what I consider to a sign of a well-written mystery, I did not figure out who the culprit was before he was revealed in the book.
So there you go.
Still, I was quite pleasantly pleased at how much I enjoyed this book, more than any since You Bet Your Life. WC Fields made for excellent client material. Kaminsky's taking Peters and Fields back to Philadelphia was amusingly done. Fields is mostly the Fields that we know from the movies, and other biographies have suggested that this was not his persona to the degree that Kaminsky portrays him. But it was still a good read, and in what I consider to a sign of a well-written mystery, I did not figure out who the culprit was before he was revealed in the book.
So there you go.
April 15, 2025
May be the best Toby Peters book in the series. This is more of a road show than the other entries and the star is W.C. Fields. I don't know how Mr. Kaminsky did it, but you can almost picture Mr. Fields saying the things that Mr. Kaminsky has written. I don't know if any movies starring W.C. Fields are ever shown on TV anymore. Look him up on You tube.
October 30, 2011
I loved this book. What a kooky premise! W.C.Fields takes Toby Peters on a chase around the country to try to outfox a thief. Great historical references and a different side of a well-known star of his time.
June 10, 2015
A fun romp through the 40s and the American midwest. I chose it for the WC Fields character and was very glad I did this as an audiobook. The reader did an impeccable job of getting the voice of Fields without going over the top.
A fun caper, sharp wit, and plenty of surprises.
A fun caper, sharp wit, and plenty of surprises.
February 13, 2009
Good writing, a little strange. It will be awhile until I read another of this series.
October 18, 2009
Very Good; Continuing character: Toby Peters; Toby travels cross country with W C Fields to track down a thief who is raiding bank accounts of Fields in various banks.
July 3, 2010
Toby Peters w/ W.C. Fields A bit crazy as you might expect with Fields as a character in the plot.
May 2, 2014
Perhaps my favorite Tony Peters novel. Hilarious.
January 29, 2016
This is the perfect audiobook read. It gives the reader a chance to do endless variations on his WC Fields impression.
June 15, 2013
Many surprising twists. Interesting view of WC Fields. Wonder how much is based on fact.
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