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In wartime L.A., milk prices are up. Margarine and gas can't be bought. For private eye Toby Peters, shoplifting patrol at the local Ralph's Grocery has been the only steady work. Into this grind of reality comes a hefty, dubiously welcome dose of surrealism, in the person of Salvador Dali, encamped in nearby Beverly Hills. The artful madman, whose professed mission it is to shock the world every 24 hours, has seen his latest publicity stunt go fatally, frighteningly amok.
Drawn into a bizarre new world of mustaches without faces, crumbling stone women, and watches melting on the Victory Drugstore grill, Toby has to hunt down a treasure of three precious paintings and three priceless clocks, while wading though a growing thicket of bodies for whom life will be forever still. Hovering over the twisted landscape is the curse of a killer even madder than Dali, and more indestructible than a Sherman tank.
- Published on: 2006-12-04
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 307 minutes
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Clocks go Bong
By Nash Black
Stuart M. Kaminsky takes the absurd to new heights with THE MELTING CLOCK. It is reading entertainment at its best.
A devious Salvador Dali hires Toby Peters to find three paintings, which he'd arranged to have stolen. The problem is he only arranged for two and three were taken. It is the third one which can destroy his career.
Step back to 1942 and enter the sleazy world of a private detective who can't seem to stop stumbling over bodies to complete his work for his clients.
Nash Black, author of SINS OF THE FATHERS.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Fine Entry in Top Detective Series
By drkhimxz
Top Parker gives us a first rate performance of Toby Peters in this Los Angeles based detective series. Kaminsky has turned to more serious stories in his two more recent series, but it is these witty books centered on the problems faced by various celebrities of the 1940's on which his reputation for superior entertainment is based. The Melting Clock gives us Salvador Dali as Peters often bewildering and bewildered client in need of professional help to find stolen pictures and clocks. Murder inevitably dogs Peters in his quest for the elusive objects; just as inevitably it brings him to the attention of various and sundry law enforcement officials who would like nothing better than to pin some crime, any crime, on him. Of course, steady readers know that the law enforcement officer most offended by Toby's inability to stay out of trouble is his brother, who can barely control his hot temper whenever Toby stumbles into something that comes to his attention. Toby's landlady is on hand to spread her customary confusion over everything happening, as are his two chief volunteer assistants, a Gentle Giant, ex-wrestler, Poet and a short sized large brained neighbor. As usual, there is a puzzle to solve and the dilemma as to how Toby is going to avoid ending up in jail or in range of his brother's ready fists.
I feel comfortable in recommending the book to anyone who has a taste for a Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe, who doesn't have their talent, class or brains, but does provide more humor, a lighter touch, more human failings, than do the obvious prototypes. For those with a taste for Old Time Radio, Toby is a character along the lines of the late Dick Powell's Richard Rogue.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good Peters book, really needs to be version read by Tom Parker to be listenable
By Kelly Howard
(the star rating comes with a caveat, below. And is 'listenable' a word? is now.)
Not, IMO the best of the Toby Peters books, this one's still very entertaining. Dali is probably the most outrageous (& at times most aggravating to Toby) client he's ever had...with the possible exception of WC Fields. But Toby must deal with Dali & his equally outrageous wife, a mysterious killer, a crazy thief & murderer, his nemesis Sheriff Nelson of Mirador, and his brother Phil. btw, I find Phil to be one of the more terrifying characters in fiction, the how easily he gets into those psychotic rages at Toby, when Toby does something as awful as, for example, asking about Phil's family.
Anyway, it's an entertaining book with the usual group of amusing side characters (Shelly the Dentist, Jeremy, Mrs Plout, Gunther).
The rating caveat is, it deserves 4 stars if you can get your hands on the version read by Tom Parker (aka Grover Gardner). The version currently on audible is done by Stephen Bowlby; I would rate his production as "meh," or 2 stars. I averaged to get 3.
I dunno if it's some asinine contract thing or what, but Audible has replaced Parker's stellar versions of several Toby Peters books with other, MUCH less skillful readers (in Parker's reading of "Dancing in the Dark," Fred Astaire sounds astonishingly like Fred Astaire). Some of them, like Christopher Lane, leave me absolutely dumbfounded as to how in the world anyone ever offered them a job as a reader in the first place, much less let them commit subsequent books.
WHY do they screw around with the narrators & replace really outstanding versions with totally unlistenable ones??? Why do they keep employing the really lousy readers? It drives me crazy! i just refuse to buy books by readers I think are awful, but I feel truly sorry for those who are stuck with audiobooks as a necessity. How cruel to them.
i know it has to be contracts/copyright + money. Still stinks.
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