The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Prolific American mystery novelist Stuart M. Kaminsky died three weeks ago today. Ever since then, The Rap Sheet has been polling readers to see which of his three series protagonists they like best: 1930s Los Angeles private eye Toby Peters; modern Moscow Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov; unlicensed South Florida peeper Lew Fonesca; or Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman.The results are now
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If you have not already made your opinion known in our latest poll, which asks that you name your favorite among the late Stuart M. Kaminsky’s four fictional series sleuths, then you’d better do so right away. Tomorrow morning (Friday) is the cutoff time, when I’ll announce which character won.So go directly to the silver-tinted box in the upper right-hand corner of this page, and...
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Sorry to hear about the passing of writer Stuart M. Kaminsky , whose intelligent and insightful 1974 book Don Siegel: Director remains carefully positioned on my bookshelf for easy access and quick reference. Indeed, I paged through it just two weeks ago while preparing a lecture for my University of Houston students prior to a classroom screening of Siegel's seminal Dirty Harry . Kaminsky also wrote...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky, a film scholar turned detective novelist who was widely known for his complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age, died on Friday in St. Louis. He was 75.
CSI Files (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Stuart M Kaminsky, who may be familiar to fans of CSI: New York as the author of three tie-in novels (Dead of Winter, Blood on the Sun and Deluge), died last Friday, October 9. The 75-year-old author passed away due to complications from hepatitis and a stroke he suffered recently. Kaminsky contracted hepatitis while serving as [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Mr. Kaminsky was a novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
He wrote more than 70 novels, creating four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, as well as four nonfiction books on film directors. Stuart M. Kaminsky, a writer of impressive range who created four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, has died. He was 75.
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Four days after his death at age 75, the Chicago Tribune has finally published an obituary of mystery novelist Stuart M. Kaminsky. The author was born and lived in Chicago until moving to southern Florida in 1989, taught for many years at Northwest University, and set one of his crime series in the Windy City, so it wasn’t unreasonable to expect that this obituary might have appeared earlier....
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky, a prolific mystery writer and the author of about 70 books, died Friday (Oct. 9, 2009) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 75. Mr. Kaminsky, who had suffered from hepatitis C, moved to St. Louis earlier this year to await a liver transplant. He suffered a stroke, however, just 36 hours after the move, making him ineligible for the transplant, said his son, Peter Kaminsky. Born in...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
It is with shock that I just received the news about crime novelist Stuart M. Kaminsky passing away earlier today. Named in 2006 as a Grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and the author of four well-established detective series, the prolific Kaminsky just turned 75 years old last month. As far as I can tell, the cause of his death has not yet been reported.Blogger-critic Sarah Weinman
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
Lew Fonesca and Ames McKinney take up the hunt for a murderer while Fonesca's life turns upside down emotionally. Stuart M. Kaminsky’s Lew Fonesca mysteries are comfort reading for me, meant for lazy rainy days or for weekends when I can read late into the evening. The puzzles are fair, and the mysteries are intriguing enough, but it’s the people and the problems Lou faces that really capture...
Brothers Judd Book Reviews (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
In the early 1980s, Martin Cruz Smith and Stuart M. Kaminsky--more or less simultaneously--wrote novels that followed decent detectives stuck investigating crime in the evil setting of the USSR. A few years later, Philip Kerr followed with the Bernhard Gunther books, which did the same thing for Nazi Berlin. Nowadays, the device is fairly common, The best recent example may be, Qiu Xiaolong's Chief...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
New crime fiction by Matt Beynon Rees, Joel Stone, Louise Penny and Stuart M. Kaminsky.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
BRIGHT FUTURES By Stuart M. Kaminsky Forge. 304 pp. $23.95
Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
First sentence : "It was raining." Description: "Eleven times over, the stories written especially for this premier volume by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction today -- Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Gillian Linscott, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Howard Engel, Carolyn Wheat, and L. B. Greenwood -- celebrate the keen...
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