Loren D. Estleman
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English
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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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Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Paperback Jack is a brand new historical thriller from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers. 1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering...
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Peter Macklin novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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"Peter Macklin is a killer - or was. He got out. He quit the mob, left Detroit, and finally met Laurie, a gorgeous, smart, passionate woman who makes him feel that perhaps life holds more for him than the deadly game of his former profession." "Los Angeles. Honeymoon. Only the memories hurt, and she's so good she knows not to ask him about what he won't discuss. Then comes the phone call. He's got to travel to Sacramento to take care of a business...
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Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Deputy US Marshal Page Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the confidence and good graces of the wary residents of Owen, Texas. A gang of ruthless bandits is terrorizing the Texas panhandle, and all evidence points to the dusty cattle town as their base of operations. Murdock aims to unmask the gang, provided he can pass himself off as a preacher long enough to...
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For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. And they would have met, if Bean had not died shortly before Lillie. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer....
6) City walls
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Amos Walker novels volume 31
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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...
7) Gas City
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2008.
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English
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In the wake of a serial killer's brutal rampage, a power struggle between a police chief, a powerful Mafia boss, and media reporters in search of a big story turns a city dominated by an oil company upside down as greed, corruption, and ambition spiral out of control.
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Amos Walker novels volume 20
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In his exciting twentieth mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.
9) Never street
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Amos Walker novels volume 11
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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In Detroit, PI Amos Walker is hired by a woman to search for her missing husband, a video producer wanted for questioning by police in connection with a series of murders. Does the lady want him found to help him, or to give him away? By the author of Sweet Women Lie.
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Amos Walker novels volume 19
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Hired by former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller to break up his daughter's romance with Hilary Bairn, a presumed fortune-hunter, Amos Walker gets more than he bargained for when Fuller's daughter turns up dead.
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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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English
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"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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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.
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"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 still consider Lawes the prime suspect, and the first-responding officer...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. WATCH YOUR BACK: When a starving...