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During World War II, while most of the Detroit police department is fighting overseas, the "Four Horsemen"--Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and Detectives McReary and Burke--struggle to keep the city safe from draft-dodging troublemakers, gangsters, racial tension and enemy saboteurs.
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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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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 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.
7) 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.
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Amos Walker novels volume 29
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2022.
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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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Detroit series volume 6
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Lieutenant Zagreb faces the ultimate challenge in World War II Detroit when he is charged with keeping the peace between the Southern whites and African-Americans who have been imported to fill industry jobs, while at the same time trying to catch a mad killer.
10) 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 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:...
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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Detroit series volume 3
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Fresh out of jail, an ex-ballplayer stumbles into the world of bounty hunting and murder in urban Detroit Even prison couldn't stop former big-league pitcher Doc Miller from playing baseball. Jailed after a teenage girl overdosed on cocaine at one of his house parties, the former Detroit Tigers ace became a star at the Michigan State Prison, bringing home the institution's first Midwestern Penal System championship. Now out on parole, his days of...
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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.
15) 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.
16) 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,...
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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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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 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...
20) Silent thunder
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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...
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