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Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 31
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
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 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 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...
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 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
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 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 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...
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
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 29
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide. Suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend; Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it? After Campbell's sister has a chance meeting with Amos Walker, she hires him to prove her brother's innocence. But nobody else is eager to see this very cold case reopened... even Dan himself, who has given up any hope of bring...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 17
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 27
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
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,...
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