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Summary: She is book editor, Louise Starr, a beautiful and scheming ghost from Amos Walker's past-- and she wants the Detroit private eye to find Eugene Booth, a missing paperback writer from the 1950's and ask him why he turned down his first book contract in 40 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Detroit private investigator Amos Walker is hired to recover HDTV converter boxes stolen from a retailer whose shop also does vintage resale business. 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: An adventurous collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and essays, including "Channeling Holmes," "On the Significance of Boswells," and "Was Sherlock Holmes The Shadow?" that delve deeper into the daring world of Sherlock Holmes and the imaginative mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyrus 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Estleman 2012Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2016Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: "The monkey in the middle is the one who "hears no evil." Private eye Amos Walker doesn't have that luxury. Hearing the truth, on the other hand, is a lot less common, even from people who need his help. It's summer in Detroit and Walker's just received word that his ex-wife has passed away. He can use a distraction, which arrives in the form of a young, would-be investigative journalist who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Estleman 2014Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2014Estleman, Loren D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first - rid him of a blackmailer from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Estleman 2018Estleman, Loren D.
Contents: The bandit -- The tree on Execution Hill -- The angel of Santa Sofia -- Rossiter's stand -- The pilgrim -- The pioneer strain -- Young Mister St. John -- A web of books -- Mago's bride -- Bad blood -- Kate -- Hell on the draw -- Beds and bullets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: While her undertaker husband practices the art of making victims of the untamed American west presentable and dignified after death, a woman devotes her time to safeguarding her marriage in the face of local challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Revolutionizing traditional mortuary practices, Richard Connable develops a method of preserving the human dignity of the deceased. His wife Lucy struggles to keep their marriage whole as she stands by his side and supports him while he builds a reputation and becomes the premier undertaker for the rich and powerful. But when Richard is called from retirement to discretely disguise the suicide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005