Loren D Estleman
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...
42) Shoot
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Appears on list
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
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 24
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tackling a murder case involving a suburbanite whose widow is flooding the community with reward offers, Amos Walker follows leads to a Ukrainian mobster who is in the Witness Protection Program.
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...
46) Cape Hell
Author
Series
Page Murdock novels volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by federal judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Conferate captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City --after which he intends to turn north to rekindle the Civil War. As Murdock heads south on a steam train through a murderous desert of a foreign land, with only a engineer who can't be trusted, and a fireman who has a few secrets of his own, he...
50) Sinister Heights
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill, transforming the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Now he is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. Only his art can save America's financial markets. His wife's task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. In the end it is she who, through love, is able to transcend death.
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...
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
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This much is history: On Christmas Eve, 1800, an "infernal machine" exploded in one of the busiest streets in Paris, France, destroying buildings and killing innocent civilians. It wasn't the first attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the newly minted Republic of France. This much is exclusive to our story: Upon the failure of the Christmas Eve plot, the conspiracy takes a new and more diabolical turn. Posterity knows what became...
Author
Series
Page Murdock novels volume 10
Publisher
Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in the territory of Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journeyinterrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, “After the Ball”gives...
58) Brazen
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma Todd, Sharon Tate... they all had more fun, but none of...
59) Paperback Jack
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. (with Maxine Paetro) 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. (with...