Dancing in the Dark

Reeks: The Toby Peters Mysteries

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  • A
  • PI
  • performs
  • some
  • fancy
  • footwork
  • to
  • protect
  • Fred
  • Astaire
  • as
  • “Edgar
  • winner
  • Kaminsky
  • effortlessly
  • choreographs
  • Hollywood
  • history
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • and
  • dirty
  • doings”
  • (Publishers
  • Weekly).Sometimes
  • fools
  • must
  • step
  • in
  • where
  • Fred
  • Astaire
  • fears
  • to
  • tap.Luna
  • Martin,
  • the
  • moll
  • of
  • a
  • well-known
  • Los
  • Angeles
  • gangster
  • nicknamed
  • “Fingers”
  • (because
  • he
  • likes
  • to
  • cut
  • them
  • off),
  • has
  • demanded
  • dance
  • lessons
  • from
  • Hollywood’s
  • finest
  • hoofer—and
  • whatever
  • Luna
  • wants,
  • Luna
  • gets.To
  • sidestep
  • the
  • flirtations
  • of
  • the
  • lead-footed
  • lady,
  • Astaire
  • hires
  • private
  • investigator
  • Toby
  • Peters
  • to
  • pose
  • as
  • a
  • dance
  • instructor
  • and
  • take
  • over
  • the
  • lessons.
  • But
  • when
  • someone
  • cuts
  • in
  • and
  • cuts
  • Luna’s
  • throat,
  • the
  • grieving
  • gangster
  • makes
  • Peters
  • an
  • offer
  • he
  • can’t
  • refuse:
  • Find
  • the
  • killer—or
  • go
  • from
  • having
  • two
  • left
  • feet
  • to
  • one
  • foot
  • in
  • the
  • grave.Now,
  • instead
  • of
  • punishing
  • the
  • parquet,
  • the
  • silver
  • screen’s
  • most
  • famous
  • song-and-dance
  • man
  • is
  • pounding
  • the
  • pavement
  • with
  • his
  • new
  • partner—a
  • rumpled,
  • middle-aged
  • gumshoe
  • who
  • just
  • wants
  • to
  • live
  • to
  • shuffle
  • through
  • another
  • day
  • .
  • . .
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