Amos Walker novels
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Amos Walker novels volume 1
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"Hired by a semi-retired gangster to find his enticing young ward, a promising porno-film star, Amos Walker journeys through the seamy underside of Detroit and unwittingly solves the murder of a popular black labor leader."--from NoveList.
2) Angel eyes
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Amos Walker novels volume 2
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Hardboiled noir starring Detroit PI Amos Walker: "For readers who can't get enough of Elmore Leonard and Ross Thomas, try Estleman. He's that good" (People).
After a tour in Vietnam and several years working the streets of Detroit as a private investigator, Amos Walker has seen a lot. But he's never encountered anything quite like his newest assignment. Ann Maringer, an aging stripper hard at work at one of the city's many...
After a tour in Vietnam and several years working the streets of Detroit as a private investigator, Amos Walker has seen a lot. But he's never encountered anything quite like his newest assignment. Ann Maringer, an aging stripper hard at work at one of the city's many...
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Amos Walker novels volume 3
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A New York Times Notable Book: A cop is shot and a Detroit PI is determined to find the culprit in this mystery by a multiple Shamus Award winner.
A routine case puts Amos Walker on the highway to Ann Arbor, but the trip turns deadly just a few miles outside of Detroit. Tailing a trucker suspected of faking hijackings, Walker does his best to keep a safe distance, but is recognized anyway. The trucker runs him off the road, and...
A routine case puts Amos Walker on the highway to Ann Arbor, but the trip turns deadly just a few miles outside of Detroit. Tailing a trucker suspected of faking hijackings, Walker does his best to keep a safe distance, but is recognized anyway. The trucker runs him off the road, and...
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Amos Walker novels volume 4
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A PI scours Detroit for a newscaster’s missing son: “[Estleman] remains among the top echelon of American private-eye specialists” (The New York Times).
On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a ten-thousand-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem:...
On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a ten-thousand-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem:...
5) Sugartown
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Amos Walker novels volume 5
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A missing boy forces Detroit PI Amos Walker to investigate a long-cold caseIt is hardly unusual for an elderly woman to ask Amos Walker to search for her grandchild. As a private detective in one of the country’s roughest cities, tracking missing persons is the way he makes most of his money. But Martha Evancek’s grandson Michael has been missing for nearly twenty years, having disappeared in the aftermath of a murder. When...
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Amos Walker novels volume 6
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While trying to help an old friend out of trouble, Detroit PI Amos Walker finds some trouble of his own Barry Stackpole was tough once. Amos Walker met him in a Cambodian shell crater when Walker was serving his country and Stackpole was on the payroll of the Detroit News, and they formed the kind of bond that war often creates. At war's end, they returned to the Motor City, where Stackpole took to reporting crimes and Walker to solving them. A...
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Amos Walker novels volume 7
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Amos Walker follows a cold trail into the great jazz past of Detroit, to help his friend Iris. The venture heats up all too fast when unknowns threaten Iris's life and warn Amos off.
8) Downriver
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Amos Walker novels volume 8
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Amos Walker is hired by Richard DeVries who was just released from prison after twenty years and is picked up again for murder. He insists he has been framed by Alfred Hendriks, now a top lieutenant to auto mogul Timothy Marianne.
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Detroit PI Amos Walker attempts to clear the name of a woman accused of murdering her husband Constance Thayer probably isn't a nice woman. If she was, she wouldn't have shot her husband to death. But just because she has a taste for nightlife-drinking, clubbing, and the finest hard drugs-doesn't mean her husband didn't deserve it. An automobile magnate in a city where internal combustion still reigns supreme, Doyle Thayer Jr. was a wife-beater with...
10) Sweet women lie
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Amos Walker novels volume 10
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A faded film star asks Detroit PI Amos Walker to get her out of a relationship with a deadly mobster When Amos Walker was a teen, he had a poster of Gail Hope on his wall. A 60s bombshell in the beach-blanket tradition, she has fallen hard since her glory days as one of the dying studio system's final starlets. But when she calls on Amos Walker she remains as lovely as ever: an elegant beauty with a $750,000 problem. Since her career evaporated,...
11) Never street
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Amos Walker novels volume 11
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Detroit private investigator Amos Walker searches to find a missing video producer whom the police believe is responsible for several murders.
12) The witchfinder
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In 17th-century New England witchfinders were the bearers of false witness -- and were paid handsomely for theirs lies. In 20th-century Detroit, the pickings are easier, and the pay has gone through the roof. Now, a world-renowned architect, thought to be dying in an L.A. hospital, has called private eye Amos Walker to a hotel room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport to find the person who engineered a lie and cost him the woman he loved. It began with...
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Amos Walker novels volume 13
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PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to recover an illuminated medieval manuscript which was stolen for ransom. The assignment leads to information on the murder, twenty years earlier, of his partner and he reopens a probe.
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Amos Walker novels volume 14
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Louise Starr, a beautiful and scheming book editor from detective Amos Walker's past, asks him to trace a missing novelist from the 1950s. Louise wants to find out why Eugene Booth refused his first book contract in 40 years. But no sooner do they find him than he hangs himself with his own belt.
15) Sinister Heights
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Amos Walker novels volume 15
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Detroit private eye Amos Walker is hired by the young widow of an industrialist to find her late husband's illegitamate child. What Walker finds is an abused wife on the run with her young son.
16) Poison blonde
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Amos Walker novels volume 16
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Flashy Latino singer Gilia Cristobal, wanted in her native country for a murder she did not commit, hires private investigator Amos Walker to find the missing person whose identity Gilia has been paying to use.
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Amos Walker novels volume 19
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Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns in his most challenging case yet. Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughters engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man Fuller believes is after her two million dollar trust. Walker breaks into Bairns apartment, only to be ambushed by cops. A murder has taken place, and the victim is Fullers daughter. Walker and the cops assume that Bairn is the murderer, but Walker has no idea...
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Joseph Michael Ballista - "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies - knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore - "Lefty Lucy" to every prosecuter she's ever humiliated - is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker's first problem? The inteded victim...
21) Infernal angels
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Detroit private investigator Amos Walker is hired to recover HDTV converter boxes stolen from a retailer whose shop also does vintage resale business. Before long, the case turns old school: both a suspect and the man who lost the boxes are murdered, and Walker ends up working with both the local police and the feds.
22) Burning midnight
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When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war that involves an international conspiracy.
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Amos Walker novels volume 23
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"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. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
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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. But this...
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"Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It's one of Walker's easiest jobs to date. In just a few short hours, Walker locates Marcus in his bedroom...murdered, his body shoved into a cupboard, a bullet through his head. This case is opened and shut quickly, but Walker can't quite let it go. When Dante is arrested for the murder...
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Amos Walker novels volume 26
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Detroit entrepreneur Carl Fannon hires Walker to trace Emil Haas, his partner, whose sudden disappearance has jeopardized their firm's plans to purchase the historic Sentinel Building. Almost immediately, the missing man shows up and asks the detective to meet him in the empty Sentinel to discuss a top-secret concern. Walker complies, only to find not Haas, but Fannon's suffocated corpse locked in a basement vault.
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"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 inherited all the instincts, and acquired all the training, necessary to carry out his threat. Told partly by Walker in first-person and partly by Macklin in third, Black...
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"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: the police...
29) Cutthroat dogs
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Amos Walker novels volume 29
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"Cut-Throat Dogs is a new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. "Someone is dead who shouldn't be, and the wrong man is in prison." Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it?"--
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Amos Walker novels volume 30
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2022.
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"From the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes Loren D. Estleman's next enthralling Amos Walker mystery, Monkey in the Middle. "Loren D. Estleman is my hero." -Harlan Coben. The monkey in the middle is the one who "hears no evil." Private eye Amos Walker doesn't have that luxury. Hearing the truth, on the other hand, is a lot less common, even from people who...
31) City walls
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2023.
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"City Walls, the next Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. "Loren D. Estleman is my hero."--Harlan Coben The search for a fugitive embezzler leads Amos Walker to Cleveland, where he is hired by Emmett Yale, a leading figure in the electric car industry, to investigate the murder of his stepson. Yale believes that his stepson's hitman is connected to Clare Strickling, a former employee, and his attempts to silence whispers that he has bought illegal...
32) General murders
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Five short stories about Detroit's favorite P.I., Amos Walker
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2022
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The four-time Shamus Award–winning author takes his readers behind-the-scenes of his long running detective series.
In 1980, readers first encountered hard-boiled private detective Amos Walker as he searches for an ex-mobster’s missing daughter in Motor City Blue. Many mysteries and decades later, the investigator is still scuffling with bad guys on the streets of Detroit. But when and where did award-winning...
In 1980, readers first encountered hard-boiled private detective Amos Walker as he searches for an ex-mobster’s missing daughter in Motor City Blue. Many mysteries and decades later, the investigator is still scuffling with bad guys on the streets of Detroit. But when and where did award-winning...