Amos Walker novels
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Amos Walker novels volume 1
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An aged mobster's adopted daughter disappears, and Detroit PI Amos Walker is the only man tough enough to seek her out It has been years since Ben Morningstar retired. The feared mobster, now decades past his prime, left his deadly business behind and retired to Phoenix. His only concern now is Maria, daughter of a long-ago murdered friend, whom Morningstar has raised as his own. When she disappears, the old man goes into action once more. When...
2) Angel Eyes
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Amos Walker novels volume 2
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When a client disappears before she can give him his assignment, Detroit PI Amos Walker must hunt down a woman he barely knows After a tour in Vietnam and several years working the streets of Detroit as a private investigator, Amos Walker has seen a lot. But he's never encountered anything quite like his newest assignment. Ann Maringer, an aging stripper hard at work at one of the city's many low-grade joints, hires him to find a missing person: herself....
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Amos Walker novels volume 3
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A policeman falls in the line of duty, and Detroit PI Amos walker searches for the shooters 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 it's only the tight handling of an American-made Cutlass that keeps Walker...
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Amos Walker novels volume 4
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A newscaster's son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy 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: His twenty-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him. The boy and his...
5) 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 case It 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 Michael's father was...
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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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A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost father Iris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her-a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She's come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has...
8) Downriver
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Amos Walker novels volume 8
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An ex-con hires Detroit PI Amos Walker to find the people who put him behind bars Countless tragedies occurred in the three days of the 1967 Detroit riots, and one of them belonged to Richard DeVries. A twenty-two-year-old black man about to get his chance to play for the Pistons, he was spotted tossing a Molotov cocktail at an abandoned building and arrested on the spot. The police added armed robbery to the arson charge, and sent DeVries up the...
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Amos Walker novels volume 9
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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...
10) Sweet Women Lie
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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,...
11) Never Street
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Amos Walker novels volume 11
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A search for a vanished husband proves one of Amos Walker's strangest cases yet What could be more innocent than watching old movies? For Neil Catalin, a wealthy man with a happy home, old-fashioned pictures were a hobby that became an obsession. But he wasn't watching The Wizard of Oz. Crime movies were his passion, the sort where life is cheap and death is free, and Catalin sank himself into them as an escape from the stresses of suburbia, when...
12) The Witchfinder
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Amos Walker novels volume 12
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A dying architect engages Detroit PI Amos Walker to uncover someone who is spreading lies about him The world is waiting for Jay Bell Furlong to die. The grand old man of American architecture is on deathwatch in a Los Angeles hospital, and it won't be long before his obituary hits the front page. Only Amos Walker knows that the impending death is a bit farther off than that. In fact, Furlong has just become Walker's client. The architect is still...
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Amos Walker novels volume 13
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Detroit PI Amos Walker searches for a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript - and for evidence that can put his former partner's killer behind bars. Hired by a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts to serve as his bodyguard during a transaction involving a stolen illuminated manuscript, Amos Walker enters a darkened skin-flick theater where the exchange is supposed to take place. When the deal goes south, he's lucky to leave with his life......
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Amos Walker novels volume 14
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Mysterious Press
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[2000]
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English
15) Sinister Heights
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Amos Walker novels volume 15
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Mysterious Press
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[2002]
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English
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Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband's illegitimate children. Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering...
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Poison blonde , Amos Walker novels volume 16
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Retro , Amos Walker novels volume 17
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Nicotine kiss , Amos Walker novels volume 18
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Amos Walker novels volume 19
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Forge
Pub. Date
c2007
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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, he discovers that Bairn had been in debt to a loan shark, Bairn vanishes, and he must tangle with crooked cops and dangerous gangsters to find the truth.
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Amos Walker novels volume 20
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Thorndike/Chivers
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2011, c2010
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English
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When "Joey Ballistic," who knows how to make an illegal buck, is in trouble again, his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore, determines to free him by getting his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder; she hires Amos Walker to investigate the old crime.
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Infernal angels , Amos Walker novels volume 21
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Burning midnight , Amos Walker novels volume 22
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Don't look for me , Amos Walker novels volume 23
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You know who killed me , Amos Walker novels volume 24
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The sundown speech: an Amos Walker novel , Amos Walker novels volume 25
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The lioness is the hunter: an Amos Walker novel , Amos Walker novels volume 26
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Black and white ball: an Amos Walker novel , Amos Walker novels volume 27
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When old midnight comes aong: an Amos Walker novel , Amos Walker novels volume 28
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Cutthroat dogs: an Amos Walker mystery , Amos Walker novels volume 29
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Monkey in the middle , Amos Walker novels volume 30
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City walls , Amos Walker novels volume 31
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General murders
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33) Amos Walker
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The four-time Shamus Award—winning author takes his readers behind-the-scenes of his long running detective series.
In 1980, readers first encountered hard-boiled private detective Amos Walker as he searches for an ex-mobster's missing daughter in Motor City Blue. Many mysteries and decades later, the investigator is still scuffling with bad guys on the streets of Detroit. But when and where did award-winning author Loren D. Estleman conceive...