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1) Shoot
Author
Series
Valentino mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Valentino, a mild-manner film archivist at UCLA and sometime film detective, is at the closing party for the Red Montana and Dixie Day museum when he is approached by no less than his hero and man-of-the-hour Red Montana, western film and television star. Red tells Valentino that he is being blackmailed over the existence of a blue film that his wife, now known throughout the world as the wholesome Dixie Day and the other half of the Montana/Day...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book editor Louise Starr, a beautiful and scheming ghost from Amos Walker's past, wants the Detroit private eye to find a missing paperback writer from the 1950s and ask him why he turned down his first book contract in 40 years. "You're perfect for this job," Louise says. "You're the kind of detective Booth wrote about; the kind they say doesn't exist in real life. Eugene Booth's trail leads to a rustic motel cabin, where the crusty old pro is hammering...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amos Walker is hired by Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances more than six years ago, is dead. Francis wants to 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 still consider Lawes the prime suspect, and the first-responding officer in...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 27
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents a crossover novel featuring private investigator Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, who struggle to protect Macklin's estranged wife from a murderous killer who may or may not be Peter's own son.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 25
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 29
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cut-Throat Dogs is a new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. "Loren D. Estleman is my hero."-Harlan Coben "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?"--
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 26
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the disappearance of an entrepreneur, Amos Walker becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a murder, questionable real estate practices, and a dangerous international fugitive.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Loren D. Estleman's hardboiled American Detective, Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet.
Ex-Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughter's engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man he believes is after her two million dollar trust. Walker goes to Bairn's apartment, only to be ambushed by cops. A murder has taken place, and the victim is Fuller's daughter. Walker and the cops assume...
9) Indigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Collecting a valuable, never-before-released noir film that was shelved for its possible mob ties, film detective Valentino searches for clues about the film's believed-dead star as part of a mainstream marketing campaign.
Author
Publisher
Tyrus
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An adventurous collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and essays, including "Channeling Holmes," "On the Significance of Boswells," and "Was Sherlock Holmes The Shadow?" that delve deeper into the daring world of Sherlock Holmes and the imaginative mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 31
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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 insider-trading information. Walker shadows Strickling to a private airfield as he attempts to flee the...
12) Infernal angels
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 21
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 30
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 need...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 24
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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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