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Amos Walker novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Tough-talking Detroit detective Walker is hired by a semi-retired gangster to find his enticing young ward.
Author
Series
A Valentino mystery volume 7
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first--rid him of a blackmailer from his shady past, and he'll gladly hand over the money that...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 27
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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 Walkers 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...
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
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university’s movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood’s...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 25
Publisher
Forge
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...
8) City walls
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 31
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 30
Publisher
Forge
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...
10) Shoot
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
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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 23
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) Infernal angels
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 21
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2011] ©2011
Language
English
Description
Working to overcome his technophobic inclinations to help recover stolen goods for an electronics retailer, Detroit private investigator Amos Walker is forced to team up with the local police and the FBI when two men connected to the case are murdered.
13) Sinister Heights
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
15) Downriver
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 8
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
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 22
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Targeted by suspicious fires and bottle bombs for attempting to extract a relative from a Mexican town gang, Amos Walker struggles to forge peace between two rival gangs only to discover ties to an international conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form. Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new Preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, hitmen, feuding families, prostitutes, prizefighters, bodyguards, corrupt cops, the walking dead, and ordinary...
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