Stuart Kaminsky

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Stuart Melvin Kaminsky (born September 29, 1934 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 9, 2009 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American writer , best known for his crime novels .

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Kaminsky studied journalism and English at the University of Illinois and rhetoric at Northwestern University , where he received his doctorate in communications in 1972 . He became a professor and he taught there from 1973 to 1989 filmmaking and film history, before moving to Sarasota at the Florida State University changed and the line took the conservatory for film and television production to the 1994th

He started writing detective novels in the 1970s , and his first protagonist was the detective Toby Peters. He got his fictional commissions from existing celebrities, most of whom came from the film business, such as Errol Flynn , Gary Cooper or Charlie Chaplin , but also others such as Albert Einstein or Salvador Dalí .

In the early 80s, Kaminsky began to be interested in his Eastern European roots. This was the inspiration for the series about the Russian inspector Porifirij Petrovich Rostnikov, which is set in Moscow. Considerable research work was necessary for the first novels of the Rostnikov series, as Kaminsky did not visit Moscow for the first time until the late 1980s. The fourth Rostnikov novel A Cold Red Sunrise (dt. Cold Sun ), which appeared in 1987, Kaminsky was successful book. A third recurring figure with autobiographical features is Abe Liebermann, a Jewish policeman from Chicago, where Kaminsky had lived for a long time.

At the age of sixty, Stuart Kaminsky stopped teaching and has since intensified his writing activities. He published over 60 crime novels and 35 short stories from 1977 until his death. There are also several biographies from the film world ( Gary Cooper , Clint Eastwood , John Huston and Don Siegel ) and non-fiction books, also on the subject of film. He also wrote film and television scripts , he was the dialogue writer of Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and wrote an episode of a Nero Wolfe series (2002), one of his favorite detectives. He contributed two novels to the literary offshoot of the crime series Detective Rockford - a call is enough , and from 2005 he wrote three further books for CSI: New York .

In 2006 Kaminsky became chairman of the US crime writers' association Mystery Writers of America (MWA), which nominated him six times for the Edgar Award (for three novels, two short stories and a non-fiction book). A good half of Stuart Kaminsky’s crime novels have been translated into German. From 1984 to 1999 in particular his series about Toby Peters and Inspector Rostnikov were published almost entirely in Germany.

Awards

Works

Toby Peters series

  • 1977 Bullet for a Star (German murder in the studio . Heyne, Munich 1984)
  • 1977 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (Eng. Behind the Hollywood scenes . Heyne, Munich 1984)
  • 1978 You Bet Your Life (Eng. Nothing works anymore . Heyne, Munich 1985)
  • 1979 The Howard Hughes Affair (Eng. The Howard Hughes Affair . Heyne, Munich 1985)
  • 1980 Never Cross a Vampire (German: Beware of the Vampire . Heyne, Munich 1986)
  • 1981 High Midnight (German noon . Heyne, Munich 1986)
  • 1981 Catch a Falling Clown (Eng. The tears of the clown . Heyne, Munich 1988)
  • 1983 He Done Her Wrong (Eng. From my life . Heyne, Munich 1986)
  • 1984 The Fala Factor (Eng. The Fala Factor . Heyne, Munich 1987)
  • 1985 Down for the Count (German : Heyne, Munich 1989)
  • 1986 The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance (Eng. Who shot Lewis Vance? Heyne, Munich 1987)
  • 1986 Smart Moves (Ger. A clever head . Heyne, Munich 1989)
  • 1987 Think Fast, Mr. Peters (Eng. The Doppelganger . Heyne, Munich 1989)
  • 1989 Buried Caesars (German: My friend Dash . Heyne, Munich 1990)
  • 1990 Poor Butterfly (German gala performance . Heyne, Munich 1991)
  • 1991 The Melting Clock (German Rasputin's revenge . Heyne, Munich 1992)
  • 1993 The Devil Met a Lady
  • 1995 Tomorrow is Another Day
  • 1996 Dancing in the Dark
  • 1997 A Fatal Glass of Beer
  • 2001 A Few Minutes Past Midnight
  • 2002 To Catch a Spy
  • 2003 Mildred Pierced
  • 2004 Now You See It

Inspector Rostnikov series

  • 1981 Rostnikov's Corpse aka Death of a Dissident (German Death of a Dissident . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1986)
  • 1984 Black Knight in Red Square (German night on Red Square . Goldmann, Munich 1989)
  • 1985 Red Chameleon (German Red Chameleon . Goldmann, Munich 1989)
  • 1987 A Cold, Red Sunrise (Ger. Kalte Sonne . Goldmann, Munich 1990)
  • 1987 A Fine Red Rain (Ger. Roter Regen . Goldmann, Munich 1989)
  • 1990 The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (Eng. The man who walked like a bear . Goldmann, Munich 1991)
  • 1991 Rostnikov's Vacation (German forced vacation for Rostnikov . Goldmann, Munich 1992)
  • 1992 Death of a Russian Priest (German death of a Russian priest . Goldmann, Munich 1993)
  • 1995 Hard Currency (German hard currency . Goldmann, Munich 1996)
  • 1996 Blood and Rubles (German Bloody Rubles . Goldmann, Munich 1997)
  • 1997 Tarnished Icons (Ger. Like wolves in winter . Goldmann, Munich 1998)
  • 1998 The Dog Who Bit a Policeman
  • 2000 Fall of a Cosmonaut
  • 2001 Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
  • 2008 People Who Walk in Darkness
  • 2010 A Whisper to the Living

Abe Liebermann series

  • 1991 Lieberman's Folly (German Lieberman's Wahnsinn . Ullstein, Berlin 1998)
  • 1993 Lieberman's Choice (German Lieberman's decision . Ullstein, Berlin 1999)
  • 1994 Lieberman's Day
  • 1995 Lieberman's Thief (German Lieberman's Jewel . Ullstein, Berlin 1997)
  • 1996 Lieberman's Law (German Lieberman's Law . Ullstein, Berlin 1997)
  • 2000 The Big Silence
  • 2002 Not Quite Kosher
  • 2004 The Last Dark Place
  • 2006 Terror Town
  • 2007 The Dead Don't Lie

Lew Fonesca series

  • 1999 Vengeance (German track to the south . Ullstein, Munich 2001)
  • 2001 retribution
  • 2003 Midnight Pass
  • 2005 denial
  • 2006 Always Say Goodbye
  • 2009 Bright Futures

Rockford Files series

  • 1996 The Green Bottle
  • 1998 Devil on My Doorstep

Other

  • 1983 When the Dark Man Calls (Eng. The voice of the murderer . Heyne, Munich 1987)
  • 1985 Exercise in Terror
  • 2010 Double Shot (announced for July 6, 2010)

Anthologies

  • 1991 opening shots
  • 1999 Hidden: And Other Stories
  • 1999 Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories by Florida's Mystery Writers
  • 2000 The Man Who Beat the System: And Other Stories (Audiobook)

Filmography

script

  • 1987: Terror Night - Skyscraper in Fear ( Enemy Territory )
  • 1993: Hidden Fears - Die Angst im Nacken ( Hidden Fears ) - based on his novel Exercise in Terror

Literary template

  • 1988: Frequency Mord ( Fréquence meurtre ) - based on his novel When the Dark Man Calls

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toby's Cases and Clients
  2. ↑ Interview with Kaminsky
personal data
SURNAME Kaminsky, Stuart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaminsky, Stuart Melvin; Kaminsky, Stuart M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2009
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri