AMOS WALKER, P. I. 

Detroit detective, looking for the lost
in the city that invented the assembly line
  

 

 

Where is Estleman, anyway?

Typically, he's at his
1950 manual typewriter
working on the next novel.
Otherwise, look for him at events listed here:

 


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CITY WALLS
[31st in the series]

April 2023
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THE MONKEY IN THE MIDDLE
[30th in the series]

June 2022
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CUTTHROAT DOGS
[29th in the series]

January 2022
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WHEN OLD MIDNIGHT COMES ALONG
[28th in the series]

December 2019
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BLACK AND WHITE BALL
[27th in the series]

March 2018
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THE LIONESS IS THE HUNTER
[26th in the series]

February 2017
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THE SUNDOWN SPEECH
[25th in the series]

November 2015
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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. Walker quickly locates Marcus--his body shoved into a cupboard, a bullet through his head. When Dante is arrested for the murder, Walker finds himself again in Helen's employ.

Walker interviews Holly Zacharias, a college student who was the last person to see Marcus alive. But, if Marcus is dead, and Dante is his killer, then who is shooting at Walker and Holly?



YOU KNOW WHO KILLED ME
[24th in the series]

December 2014
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Amos Walker is at low ebb. Just released from a rehab clinic, the Detroit private detective has to marshal his energies to help solve a murder in Iroquois Heights, his least favorite town.



DON'T LOOK FOR ME
[23nd in the series]

March 2014
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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....




BURNING MIDNIGHT
[22]

June 2012
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Walker is hired by his old friend, Detroit Police Inspector John Alderdyce, to get his son's brother-in-law out of a Mexican street gang.



INFERNAL ANGELS
[21]

July 2011
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THE LEFT-HANDED DOLLAR
[20]

December 2010
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Kindle . ASIN B003P8QDBE

This, the 20th novel in the series,
marked 30 years since
Amos Walker was introduced to the world!

 


AMERICAN DETECTIVE
[19]

April 3, 2007
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Excerpt: CLICK

AMERICAN DETECTIVE
was one of only seven mystery novels
to make Publisher's Weekly's
top 150 novels of 2007

 


NICOTINE KISS
[18]

FORGE BOOKS . 2006 . ISBN 0765312239

A 2006 Michigan Notable Book
Library of Michigan

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Walker has made a lot of friends--and more than a few enemies--in his years as a detective in Detroit, but he has never had to deal with quite the trouble he finds when he agrees to grant the death-bed wish of Beryl Garnet. Beryl was a successful madam who had a son long ago; she asks Walker to make sure that her son gets her ashes when she's gone.
RETRO
[17]

FORGE BOOKS . 2004 . ISBN 0765304481
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio


Poison Blonde
POISON BLONDE
[16]

FORGE BOOKS . 2003 . ISBN 0765304473
Also on tape from Audio Renaissance


Sinister Heights
SINISTER HEIGHTS
[15]

MYSTERIOUS PRESS . 2002 . ISBN 0892967382
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio

 


A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER
[14]

MYSTERIOUS PRESS . 2000 . ISBN 0892967064
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio

Starred review from Publishers Weekly

 

hours of the virgin
THE HOURS OF THE VIRGIN
[13]

MYSTERIOUS PRESS . 1999 . ISBN 0892966831
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio

 


THE WITCHFINDER
[12]

MYSTERIOUS PRESS . 1998 . ISBN 0892966637
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio

Starred reviews: Publishers Weekly and Booklist,
and was a Book of the Month Club alternate

 

Never Street-- A wife hires Walker to find her husband, an old-movie buff who may have gone off to lead the life of a 1940s noir hero. As the detective delves deeper, the case begins to resemble the plot of a classic Hollywood melodrama, with one important difference: When the lights come up, the bodies stay dead.
NEVER STREET
[11]

MYSTERIOUS PRESS . 1997 . ISBN 0892966335
Also on tape from Brilliance Audio

Nero Award nominee
People magazine Page Turner Of The Week
Starred reviews: Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews

Named among the best books of the year by both the New York Times Book Review and the Bookman Book Review Syndicate

 


SWEET WOMEN LIE
[10]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1990
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2004 . ISBN 0743479130

 

Silent Thunder
SILENT THUNDER
[9]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1989
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2003 . ISBN 0743474805

 


DOWNRIVER
[8]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1988
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2002 . ISBN 0743444949

Winner: American Mystery Award for Best PI Novel

 

Lady Yesterday
LADY YESTERDAY
[7]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1987
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2002 . ISBN 0743434951

 

Every Brilliant Eye
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE
[6]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1985
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2001 . ISBN 0743434951

Note: Michael Seidman quoted the opening as an example of the best
way to open a book in Living the Dream, a textbook for writers.

 


SUGARTOWN
[5]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1984
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2001 . 0743412931

Winner: Shamus Award for best Private Eye Novel

 

glass highway
THE GLASS HIGHWAY
[4]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1983
Reprint: Byron Preiss Visual Publications . 2000 . ISBN 0743407296

 

midnight man
THE MIDNIGHT MAN
[3]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1982
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2000 . ISBN 0743479130

 

angel eyes
ANGEL EYES
[2]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1981
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2000 . ISBN 0671039008

 

motor city blue
MOTOR CITY BLUE
[1]

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1980
Reprint: ibooks inc . 2000 . ISBN 0671038982


 

MORE WALKER...


[ September 2010 ]
AMOS WALKER: THE COMPLETE STORY COLLECTION
Tyrus Books (Consortium, dist.), $32.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-935562-24-5

In honor of Amos Walker's 30th anniversary (1980-2010), the author has compiled a mammoth 600-plus-page collection of all 31 Walker stories, with an introduction by Estleman and the new, never-before-published story, "Sometimes a Hyena."

Estleman is an acknowledged master of the short story. Ten of his very best starring Amos Walker appear in

GENERAL MURDERS
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN . 1988

This collection provides a "crash" course in Detroit, cars, guns, cops, and crooks, and includes the 1985 Shamus Award winning story, "Eight Mile and Dequindre."

After the publication of General Murders, another Amos Walker short story won the Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (1988). Titled "The Crooked Way," it can be found in Dark Crimes: Great Noir Fiction From the '40s to the '90s.

[ From Wayne State University Press ]



AMOS WALKER'S DETROIT
Autumn 2007

Text by Loren Estleman
Photos by Monte Nagler

This coffee table book features photos of
Detroit-area locations with descriptions from throughout
the Amos Walker series

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