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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.
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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 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.
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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:...
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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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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...
8) 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.
11) 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 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.
13) 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.
14) 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 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...
16) 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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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 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.
19) 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.
20) 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.
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