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Amos Walker novels volume 31
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a young would-be journalist needs his protection, but is suspiciously vague why or from whom, PI Amos Walker--faced with a sketchy novelist, a fugitive whistleblower and a career assassin--searches for answers but instead finds a dead body.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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 12
Language
English
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Description
A dying architect engages Detroit PI Amos Walker to uncover someone who is spreading lies about himThe 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....
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 14
Language
English
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Description
In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war that involves an international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous 1930s Hollywood icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
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...
11) Infernal angels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Detroit private investigator Amos Walker, who recently got his first cell phone, is hired for a twenty-first-century job recovering stolen HDTV converter boxes. But 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. The boxes were being used to smuggle high-grade heroin that's killing off junkies left and right, and it's up to Walker...
13) Sinister Heights
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Tyrus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the Nero Wolfe series--one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world--a collection of Nero Wolfe--inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era. From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe--the eccentric, orchid-breeding detective genius--as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman. Nearly Nero...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 25
Language
English
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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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At a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo, Hollywood film detective Valentino is having fun until the host, a hotshot developer named Rankin, tells Valentino about a certain letter from Garbo to his late wife. She and Garbo had been...close. Such a letter is of great interest to a film archivist like Valentino, but the plot thickens when Rankin tells Val that his assistant, Akers, is using this letter to blackmail him. Val is
...17) Ragtime cowboys
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In prohibition-era Southern California, real life detectives Charles D. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician--Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an exciting, suspenseful tale in which the Old West and Hollywood collide. Los Angeles, 1921: Ex-Pinkerton Charlie Siringo is living in quiet retirement when Wyatt Earp knocks on his door and asks him to track...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When his former actress friend is murdered at a crime scene staged to look the way Marilyn Monroe was found, sometime film detective Valentino is targeted with suspicion by police detective Ray Padilla, who asks for Valentino's help when another former actress is killed.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 26
Language
English
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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 24
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
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