Stuart M. Kaminsky

There's nothing funny about the package that comes for Chico Marx. It's a severed ear....

The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past....

In the topsy-turvy world of post-communist Russia, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov's work is never done....

A pair of cops hunt the killer of the most beautiful hooker on Chicago’s North Side. On a blistering Chicago afternoon, the Cubs are winning and Abe Lieberman is waiting to meet a prostitute....

The uniformed man standing before Toby Peters is General Douglas MacArthur, a soldier who considers himself the only man who can defeat the Japanese....

Toby Peters wakes up with a headache, a gun in his face, and a body on the hotel-room bed. He is less surprised by the gun than by the man holding it: John Wayne....

Inside the Moscow Police Department, madness reigns....

Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people....

When a former Russian advisor stands accused of murdering a female citizen in Cuba, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to the former Soviet Unions one-time ally on a criminal investigation-cum-diplomatic mission.....

Lew finds himself being trailed by a mysterious burly man....