Search results
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. [1] He died on October 9, 2009.
Bernie Shepard found out his wife was cheating with a fellow cop and murdered them both. Now he’s holed up in his apartment with a rifle and explosives. It will be up to Abe and his partner Bill to keep him at bay.
- Personal
- Career
- Member
- Awards, Honors
- Writings
- Adaptations
- Sidelights
- Biographical and Critical Sources
Born September 29, 1934, in Chicago, IL; son of Leo and Dorothy Kaminsky; married Merle Gordon, August 30, 1959 (marriage ended); married Enid Lisa Perll, January 7, 1986; children: (first marriage) Peter Michael, Toby Arthur, Lucy Irene; (second marriage) Natasha Melisa Perll. Education: University of Illinois, B.S., 1957, M.A., 1959; Northwestern...
Novelist and screenwriter. University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, science writer, 1962-64; University of Illinois—Chicago, medical writer, 1965-68; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, editor of news service, 1968-69; University of Chicago, director of public relations and assistant to the vice-president for public affairs, 1969-...
International Crime Writers Association, Writers Guild of America, Private Eye Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Popular Culture Association of America, Society for Cinema Studies.
Edgar Award nomination, Mystery Writers of America, 1984, for Black Knight in Red Square; Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America, 1989, for A Cold Red Sunrise;International Prix de Roman for crime fiction, 1990; Grand Master Award, Mystery Writers of America, 2006.
MYSTERY NOVELS
Bullet for a Star, St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1977. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1977. You Bet Your Life,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1979. The Howard Hughes Affair,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1980. Never Cross a Vampire,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1980. Death of a Dissident,Ace Books/Charter Books (New York, NY), 1981. High Midnight,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1981. Catch a Falling Clown,St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1982. He Done Her Wrong: A Toby Peters...
OTHER
Here Comes the Interesting Part(one-act play), first produced in New York, NY, at New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968. Don Siegel, Director(biography), Curtis Books (New York, NY), 1974. American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film(textbook), Pflaum/Standard (Fairfield, NJ), 1974, 2nd revised edition, Nelson-Hall (Chicago, IL), 1984. Clint Eastwood(biography), New American Library (New York, NY), 1975. (Editor, with Joseph F. Hill) Ingmar Bergman: Essays in Cr...
When the Dark Man Calls was adapted as a film titled Frequence Meurtrefor Geuville Pictures in 1988; numerous novels have been adapted as audio books.
Stuart M. Kaminsky is an author of numerous mysteries and the creator of four distinct series sleuths: World War II-era Toby Peters, Chicago-based Abraham Lieberman, Russian police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, and Florida private investigator Lew Fonesca. Additionally, Kaminsky has penned novels based on the popular Rockford Files television show. ...
PERIODICALS
Armchair Detective, spring, 1990, review of A Cold Red Sunrise,p. 192. Book, November, 2000, Jennifer Braunschweiger, review of Fall of a Cosmonaut,p. 79. Booklist, November 15, 1988, review of A Cold Red Sunrise, p. 542; May 15, 1990, review of Poor Butterfly, p. 1783; July, 1992, Peter Robertson, review of Death of a Russian Priest, p. 1923; April 15, 1997, Wes Lukowsky, review of A Fatal Glass of Beer, p. 1406; January 1, 1998, Wes Lukowsky, review of Devil on My Doorstep, p. 783; June 1,...
ONLINE
Internet Movie Database,http://www.imdb.com/(November 20, 2006), "Stuart Kaminsky." MysteryOne.com,http://www.mysteryone.com/(August 28, 2002), "Stuart Kaminsky Interview." Stuart Kaminsky Home Page,http://www.stuartkaminsky.com(November 20, 2006). Whodunnit.com,http://www.who-dunnit.com/ (November 20, 2006), "Stuart Kaminsky," and Alan Paul Curtis, review of Midnight Pass.
Stuart M. Kaminsky married his wife, Enid Perll, and later moved to St. Missouri with her in March 2009. The reason why they had to relocate to this place is because, in line of duty during the 1950s, Stuart M. Kaminsky was an army medic, who unfortunately contracted Hepatitis in France.
My wife [Enid Perll] and I were fortunate enough to find two partners who believed in the idea and knew a lot more about business than we did. The editorial policy is simple: we publish what I like and would like people to read.
Jan 1, 2006 · Always Say Goodbye. Stuart M. Kaminsky. 3.64. 301 ratings41 reviews. Four years ago, Lew Fonesca’s wife Catherine was struck and killed in a hit-and-run. Grief-stricken, he fled Chicago and wound up in Sarasota, Florida where he’s made a living as a process server.
Oct 13, 2009 · Other survivors include his wife, Enid Perll; another son, Toby; two daughters, Lucy and Natasha; his mother, Dorothy; a sister, Sara Rashkow; and three grandchildren. Services were held in St....
