Toby Peters Books in Order

Toby Peters is hired to deliver hush money and recover a blackmail photo that could ruin Errol Flynn. The job drags him into 1940 Hollywood, studio panic, and a murder trail that winds onto the set of The Maltese Falcon.

A year after The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland finds a murdered Munchkin on a dusty MGM soundstage. Toby Peters is brought in to keep the scandal quiet, but protecting Judy quickly becomes a matter of life and death.

When Chico Marx starts receiving threats from a Chicago bookie, Toby Peters follows the trail through Hollywood, Florida, and gangland connections. Even the Marx Brothers' jokes cannot keep the danger from turning deadly.

Howard Hughes hires Toby to quietly recover stolen blueprints taken from one of his parties. What looks like hush-hush espionage soon becomes triple murder, wartime intrigue, and a fight to keep the secrets out of the wrong hands.

Bela Lugosi fears one of his obsessive vampire fans means to kill him, so he hires Toby Peters. Another case involving William Faulkner soon crosses his path, and the link between them is murder.

Gary Cooper needs help with a blackmail problem, but Toby's dentist office-mate bungles the job before Toby can even start. Now Cooper is on a gangster's radar, and Toby has to repair the damage before someone gets buried.

A circus saboteur is targeting performers, and clown Emmett Kelly may be next. Toby goes undercover under the big top, where murder, panic, and even Alfred Hitchcock end up tangled in the same show.

Mae West's stolen memoir seems like plain old theft until Toby walks into a costume party full of men dressed like Mae herself. Somewhere in the wigs and wisecracks is someone bent on destroying her.

Eleanor Roosevelt quietly asks Toby to find the real Fala after she suspects the president's dog has been replaced. What sounds absurd turns into a dangerous plot aimed straight at the White House.

Toby finds Joe Louis standing over a dead man and does not believe the heavyweight champion is a killer. Clearing him gets complicated fast when the victim turns out to have ties to Toby's own past.

A man claiming to be John Wayne's stand-in lures Toby into a trap and ends up dead. With the real Duke now under threat, Toby has to untangle a strange conspiracy before the next shot lands.

Albert Einstein is being blackmailed and may also be a target for Nazi killers, which is how Toby Peters winds up far from Hollywood in wartime New Jersey and New York. The stakes are suddenly much bigger than scandal.

A distraught dentist thinks his wife has run off with Peter Lorre, but the supposed lover turns out to be an impersonator. When the mimic is shot, Toby has to protect the real Lorre and solve the mix-up.

General Douglas MacArthur needs a discreet detective to recover stolen letters and a donor list before blackmail wrecks his ambitions. Toby joins forces with Dashiell Hammett and walks straight into fresh danger.

A threatened production of Madama Butterfly becomes a murder case when a workman dies and a phantom-like saboteur starts targeting the opera company. Toby heads to San Francisco to stop the attacks before opening night.

Salvador Dali hires Toby to recover three paintings that were supposed to be stolen as a stunt and then returned. Instead, the prank turns serious, strange, and increasingly dangerous.

Toby is hired to protect Bette Davis from kidnappers while her engineer husband worries about stolen secrets and blackmail. To save her, he has to work through spies, thugs, and wartime nerves.

Years after a studio extra died during the burning of the Gone with the Wind sets, Clark Gable starts receiving death threats. Toby learns the old death was no accident, and one of the names marked for murder is his own.

Fred Astaire hires Toby to keep a gangster's moll off his dance card, but then the woman is murdered. The gangster wants answers fast, and Toby does not have much room to miss a step.

W. C. Fields has had a fortune stolen out of scattered bank accounts and wants Toby to get it back. Their chase across small-town America is funny, messy, and never far from violence.

Charlie Chaplin is warned off a mysterious woman by a knife-wielding intruder who seems to know too much. Toby has to keep the filmmaker alive while digging into a case that reaches back to old murder and fresh obsession.

Cary Grant is secretly working for British intelligence when Nazi sympathizers decide to blackmail him. Toby handles the payoff, then gets dragged into murder, espionage, and a cliff-edge finish.

Toby's dentist neighbor is found over his wife's body with a crossbow in hand and insists Joan Crawford can clear him. Toby follows the clues into Hollywood comeback politics and a very odd survivalist crowd.

Master magician Harry Blackstone hires Toby and his brother to guard a Hollywood show after receiving death threats. Sabotage, blackmail, and a backstage murder turn the final Toby Peters case into one last flashy puzzle.