"A new Amos Walker mystery from award-winning author Loren D. Estleman!Amos Walker is hired by one Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances shortly more than six years ago, is dead, so he can remarry without having to wait for the seven-year-declaration-of-death rule to kick in. Walker’s investigation is complicated by two facts: t ..."
Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories(1st Edition) With a foreword by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Tom Clavin by LorenD. Estleman Library, 389 Pages, Published 2019 by Five Star Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-6433-0, ISBN: 1-4328-6433-5
""For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres.Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19 ..."
"As featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal "Loren Estleman is my hero." --Harlan CobenDesperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form. Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new Preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, ..."
Detroit Is Our Beat Tales of the Four Horsemen by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4405-8845-7, ISBN: 1-4405-8845-7
"The place: Detroit. The time: World War II.While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy saboteurs, and a mixed bag of racial and ethnic groups working uneasily side by side in defense plants run by the automobile industry.With blackjacks, brass knuckles, tommy guns, and their bare fi ..."
The Hours of the Virgin(1st Edition) (The Amos Walker Series #14) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 1999 by Mysterious Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-683-7, ISBN: 0-89296-683-1
"Detroit is no place for virgins, or gentlemen. Walker, who is neither, follows the 500-year-old trail of a stolen illuminated manuscript across the bleak landscape of a dead city, coming face to face with a trinity as unholy as anything in Revelations: a crippled millionaire pornographer, a mystery woman with mismatched eyes, and the darkest demon from his own past -- the man who murdered his partner 20 years ago."
The Stranglers (Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshall, Book 4) by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, 193 Pages, Published 1999 by Jove ISBN-13: 978-0-515-12570-2, ISBN: 0-515-12570-9
"Plenty of action, marvelous period detail and spare writing, a hard-boiled western"
General Murders by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, 183 Pages, Published 1989 by Fawcett Publishing Co ISBN-13: 978-0-449-21696-5, ISBN: 0-449-21696-9
"Ten Amos Walker mystery tales find the wryly humorous sleuth face to face with felons from every walk of life, stirring up trouble from the alleys of Greektown to Detroit's swank business district"
Sugartown(Reprint) by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 1985 by Fawcett Books ISBN-13: 978-0-449-20998-1, ISBN: 0-449-20998-9
"We were jammed up against the walls now and Kowalski decided to adjourn to
headquarters. He'd never ... They reminded me a little of the death's-head
pictures of Martha Evan- cek's late husband Michael in the back of her photo
album."
Nearly Nero The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Gallery Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5072-0327-9, ISBN: 1-5072-0327-6
"Based on the Nero Wolfe series--one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world--a collection of Nero Wolfe-inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era. From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe--the eccentric, orchid-breeding detective genius--as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman ..."
Wild Justice (Hardback or Cased Book) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, Published 2019 by Thorndike Press Large Print, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-6331-9, ISBN: 1-4328-6331-2
Wild Justice A Page Murdock Novel (Page Murdock Novels) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Forge Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-19709-2, ISBN: 1-250-19709-0
"A riveting western novel starring beloved character Page Murdock from Spur Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman!In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in the territory of Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail.The long journey―interrupted from time to time by station stops for the pub ..."
Black and White Ball An Amos Walker Mystery (Amos Walker Novels) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Forge Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-8847-6, ISBN: 0-7653-8847-2
"Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball!Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker’s client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inh ..."
Don't Look for Me(1st Edition) An Amos Walker Novel (Amos Walker Novels) by LorenD. Estleman, Amos Walker Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Forge Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3121-2, ISBN: 0-7653-3121-7
"First a rich young wife is missing, then bodies start showing up. Amos Walker's up to his neck in dames, drugs…and murder, again Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. ..."
Silent Thunder by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by I Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-7480-1, ISBN: 0-7434-7480-5
Little Black Dress(1st Edition) (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 5) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 235 Pages, Published 2005 by Forge Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0894-8, ISBN: 0-7653-0894-0
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HIT MAN MEETS HIS NEW MOTHER-IN-LAW?Multiple Shamus Award winner Loren D. Estleman is "a superb stylist as well as a deft storyteller [who] paints his people and his city with acerbic wit and wry affection" (San Diego Union-Tribune). Peter Macklin was a hit man for a long time but he has taken steps to distance himself from his tattooed past, like quitting the mob, moving away from Detroit, and marrying the gorgeous, ..."
Gun Man(1st Edition) by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Jove ISBN-13: 978-0-515-12752-2, ISBN: 0-515-12752-3
"From one of the most renowned storytellers of our time comes a novel of a wanted man seeking refuge in the legendary Missouri militia. Estleman has no rival--not even Louis L'Amour--in evoking the American Southwest."-- Kirkus Reviews"Estleman rivals the finest American novelists."-- The Washington Post"
The Witchfinder by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 306 Pages, Published 1998 by The Mysterious Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-663-9, ISBN: 0-89296-663-7
"In seventeenth-century New England witchfinders were the bearers of false witness - and were paid handsomely for their lies. In twentieth-century Detroit, the pickings are easier, and the pay has gone through the roof. Now, a world-renowned architect, a man thought to be dying in a Los Angeles hospital, has called Amos Walker to a hotel room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, to find the person who engineered a heartbreaking lie - and cos ..."
"An anthology of twelve stories awarded the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers ofAmerica features the work of the most talented practitioners of ..."
Stress(1st Edition) (Detroit Crime Series #5) by LorenD. Estleman Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 1996 by Mysterious Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-553-3, ISBN: 0-89296-553-3
"A continuation of the popular Detroit series traces the experiences of Charlie Battle, a black rookie policeman, who joins an elite undercover squad known for its shoot-first philosophy and its anti-black prejudice."
The Stranglers(1st Edition) by LorenD. Estleman Paperback, Published 1985 by Fawcett Crest ISBN-13: 978-0-449-12848-0, ISBN: 0-449-12848-2