"Peters, the world-weary private eye to the stars, has all he can handle in the headstrong,
pontificating Fields, whose oratorical pomposities are captured perfectly in Kaminsky's dialogue. Egads!
This book is a hoot!"Booklist

"Toby's 20th is cause for celebration, especially if Fields is paying."Kirkus Reviews

"What an amazingand not famous enough by halfmystery writer Stuart M. Kaminsky is!... This 20th
installment is one of the best"Amazon.com

W.C. Fields may be Hollywood's reigning jester, but he's no fool. For forty years he's cached over a million
dollars of his lucre under assumed names in dozens of banks all over the country. But now a man who calls
himself Lester O. Hipnoodle, a public menace with a mysterious score to settle, has somehow lifted the
great man's bankbooks and roams the nation, cleaning out Fields' deposits.

As Peters and Fields pursue their quarry, Hipnoodle taunts them with tantalizing clues and harries them with
the occasional bullet. The ugly specter of the Ku Klux Klan and the immortal profile of John Barrymore cast
their enigmatic shadows across their path. Then an additional, mysterious desperado lights on their tail,
whose interest lies not in grabbing Fields' fortune but in canceling hisand Toby'saccounts. Permanently.