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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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Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas, in order to stop a gang of ruthless bandits who have been terrorizing the Texas panhandle.
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Amos Walker novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Page Murdock novels volume 3
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Murdock's Law was enforced the only way Page Murdock knew how-with a gun. Special U.S. Deputy Murdock thought he was just passing through Breen, Montana, in pursuit of outlaw Chris Shedwell. Before he could move on, they had given him a new title:Marshall of Breen, and Murdock was plunged into the midst of a range war.Big and small ranchers were fighting it out with hired guns, and they expected their new Marshall to be one of them. Then there was...
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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...
7) Wild justice
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In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in 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 is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...
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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...
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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.
10) The midnight man
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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...
11) Cape Hell
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"Ordered to investigate suspicions that a former Confederate captain is raising an army to take over Mexico City and rekindle the U.S. Civil War, Page Murdock embarks on a perilous mission in the desert with two secretive companions."--from NoveList.
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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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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...
14) Lady yesterday
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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.
16) 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.
17) 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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2018.
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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...
19) White desert
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"Cynical U.S. Marshal Page Murdock pursues a vicious gang into the far north of Canada during winter."--from NoveList.
20) 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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