Today's Amazon UK "Kindle Daily Deal" is 19 books in Stuart M. Kaminsky's excellent "Toby Peters" detective series, at the usual 99p per book. I already had some of them but I've taken the opportunity to fill in the gaps in the series.
The books are set in the 1940s, and mostly involve Peters, a private eye, being employed by film studios to sort out problems for film stars. Eg, here's the description of one of them:
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Coffins fill the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie theater. Five vampires crowd around fading horror idol Bela Lugosi, peppering him with questions. A malfunctioning plastic fang causes one of the undead-wannabes to lisp. The effect is less than fearsome, but Lugosi is terrified, for one of these oddballs has been making threats on his life. He hires Toby Peters to provide security against his unbalanced fans. The detective is not concerned, but he should be. Even fake vampires can kill.
Meanwhile, the Warner brothers contact Peters regarding a murder. A body has surfaced in one of Hollywood's darker corners, and police suspicion has fallen on one of the studio's star screenwriters: William Faulkner. As he struggles to balance the murder investigation while protecting Lugosi, Peters finds a thread connecting the two cases. To get Faulkner off the hook, he'll have to find out who wants to kill Hollywood's original Dracula.
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A great opportunity to get an excellent series at a good price.