Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Crimeline
Keywords: corner, king
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0553562584
ISBN-13: 9780553562583

Recently released from prison, former major league baseball player Doc Miller takes a job as driver and muscle man for a tough bail bondsman and finds himself in a world of guns, greed, and murder. Reprint. NYT. PW.

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: walker, amos, novels, novel, detective, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-12-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765350823
ISBN-13: 9780765350824

Ex-Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Amos Walker to break off his daughter’s engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man he believes is after her two million dollar trust fund. But then Fuller’s daughter is found dead in Bairn’s apartment, and what seems like a simple case of greed and murder soon uncovers a twisted web of corruption.Walker discovers that Bairn had made many enemies before he disappeared, and continuing his investigation puts Walker on the wrong side of all of them. On the run from crooked cops and vile gangsters, and at every turn farther from the truth t

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: walker, amos, novels, novel, kiss, nicotine
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0765312239
ISBN-13: 9780765312235

Sometimes friendship is the only thing you can count on. Just before Thanksgiving, an old friend, cigarette smuggler Jeff Starzek, saved private detective Amos Walker’s life by getting him to the hospital when he was shot. After New Year’s, Walker gets a frantic call from Starzek’s sister. Jeff’s missing; hasn’t been in touch for weeks. It’s just not like him.Now Walker, still gimpy and rehabbing, is trying to find Starzek. All he has to go on is his knowledge of Starzek’s territory—the Lake Huron shore north of Detroit—and a tip from Homeland Security agent Herbert Clemson. Cl

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: I Books
Keywords: series, walker, amos, sugartown
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-02-27
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743412931
ISBN-13: 9780743412933

AN AMOS WALKER MYSTERY Spring has come to Detroit’s Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish settlers of neighboring Hamtramck, when old Martha Evancek hires him to look for her missing grandson. But even before Walker gets a chance to investigate, he’s presented with a second case: an eminent Russian novelist who fears that someone is out to kill him. Walker knows the two cases are connected, but finding that link might cost him his life.

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: series, valentino, frames
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0765315750
ISBN-13: 9780765315755

Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist. In the surreal world of Hollywood filmdom truth is often stranger than celluloid fiction. When Valentino buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement, he’s not really surprised. But he’s staggered by a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim’s infamous Greed.The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious old film. If Valentino wants to save his find, he has only one choice: solve the murder within 72 hours with the help of his

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: executioner, master
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-09-16
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0812584376
ISBN-13: 9780812584370

Ordinary people do not understand Oscar Stone. Everything he does, he does impeccably. He is a profound student of his art, completely versed in its traditions over the centuries. He is a student of ropes and their properties, a master of the latest scientific knowledge about the human neck, a careful calculator of weights and drops, and an exacting observer of results.For more than a quarter of a century he has worked to create a reputation as a man peerless in his craft: the master executioner.Yet he is utterly alone: His devotion to his work costs him his marriage. Suddenly, one day, a piec

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: mysteries, valentino
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0765315769
ISBN-13: 9780765315762

The second wacky comedic murder romp for Hollywood film detective ValentinoValentino wants to keep The Oracle, his beloved run-down movie palace, from being condemned before it even reopens, but murder keeps intruding into his otherwise quiet life. At a gala party held in memory of screen legend Greta Garbo, he’s 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 the plot thickens when Rankin tells Val that