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Amos Walker novels volume 12
Language
English
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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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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.
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Series
Language
English
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Even prison couldn't stop former big-league pitcher Doc Miller from playing baseball. Jailed after a teenage girl overdosed on cocaine at one of his house parties, the former Detroit Tigers ace became a star at the Michigan State Prison, bringing home the institution's first Midwestern Penal System championship. Now out on parole, his days of ballpark heroics are over for good. Miller's brother gets him a job selling tractor parts for John Deere,
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Amos Walker novels volume 20
Language
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.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
7) Stress
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Series
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English
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In the early 1970s, after some black men are shot by a white policeman, the Detroit police appoint Officer Charlie Battle, a black policeman, to carry out an investigation, then put every possible obstacle in his way. But were the blacks really innocent? Battle's probe is complicated by the arrival of the FBI and a case involving the Black Panthers.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 17
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
9) Motown
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick Amery has been offered a job as an undercover cop to find some unfavorable information on a consumer-safety organization that threatens to put Detroit's profitable auto industry on the skids.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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It is the 1950's in Detroit and Connie Minor has the job of selling the Edsel to America. Before he can start, he's hit with a hardball proposition from union leader Walter Reuther and a zealous politician. Minor dives into the Detroit underworld of mobsters, wrestlers, and ex-cops, where he finds someone with deadly plans for Henry Ford's dream.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
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...
13) 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...
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.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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...
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 27
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! 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 Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all the instincts, and acquired all the training,...
19) The witch finder
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Warner Books edition.
Physical Desc
289, 12 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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