Loren D. Estleman Books In Order

Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshal Books In Publication Order

  1. The High Rocks (1979)
  2. Stamping Ground (1980)
  3. Murdock’s Law (1982)
  4. The Stranglers (1985)
  5. City of Widows (1994)
  6. White Desert (2000)
  7. Port Hazard (2004)
  8. The Book of Murdock (2010)
  9. Cape Hell (2016)
  10. Wild Justice (2018)

Amos Walker Books In Publication Order

  1. Motor City Blue (1980)
  2. Angel Eyes (1981)
  3. The Midnight Man (1982)
  4. The Glass Highway (1983)
  5. Sugartown (1984)
  6. Every Brilliant Eye (1986)
  7. Lady Yesterday (1987)
  8. Downriver (1988)
  9. Silent Thunder (1989)
  10. Sweet Women Lie (1990)
  11. Never Street (1997)
  12. The Witchfinder (1998)
  13. The Hours of the Virgin (1999)
  14. A Smile on the Face of the Tiger (2000)
  15. Sinister Heights (2002)
  16. Poison Blonde (2003)
  17. Retro (2004)
  18. Nicotine Kiss (2005)
  19. American Detective (2007)
  20. The Left-Handed Dollar (2010)
  21. Infernal Angels (2011)
  22. Burning Midnight (2012)
  23. Don’t Look for Me (2014)
  24. You Know Who Killed Me (2014)
  25. The Sundown Speech (2015)
  26. The Lioness Is the Hunter (2017)
  27. Black and White Ball (2018)
  28. When Old Midnight Comes Along (2020)
  29. Cut-Throat Dogs (2021)

Amos Walker Collections In Publication Order

  1. General Murders (1988)
  2. Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection (2010)

Peter Macklin Books In Publication Order

  1. Kill Zone (1984)
  2. Roses are Dead (1985)
  3. Any Man’s Death (1986)
  4. Something Borrowed, Something Black (2002)
  5. Little Black Dress (2004)

Detroit Books In Publication Order

  1. Whiskey River (1990)
  2. Motown (1991)
  3. King of the Corner (1992)
  4. Edsel (1995)
  5. Stress (1996)
  6. Jitterbug (1998)
  7. Thunder City (1999)

Valentino Books In Publication Order

  1. Frames (2008)
  2. Alone (2009)
  3. Alive! (2013)
  4. Shoot (2016)
  5. Brazen (2016)
  6. Indigo (2020)

The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books In Publication Order

  1. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (By:Philip José Farmer) (1974)
  2. War of the Worlds (By:Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman) (1975)
  3. The Giant Rat of Sumatra (By:Richard L. Boyer) (1976)
  4. Sherlock vs Dracula (1978)
  5. The Stalwart Companions (By:H. Paul Jeffers) (1978)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979)
  7. The Whitechapel Horrors (By:Edward B. Hanna) (1992)
  8. The Seventh Bullet (By:Daniel D. Victor) (1992)
  9. Seance for a Vampire (By:Fred Saberhagen) (1994)
  10. The Angel of the Opera (By:Sam Siciliano) (1994)
  11. The Titanic Tragedy (By:William Seil) (1996)
  12. The Star of India (By:Carole Buggé) (1998)
  13. The Scroll of the Dead (By:David Stuart Davies) (1998)
  14. The Man from Hell (By:Barrie Roberts) (2000)
  15. The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By:Carole Buggé) (2000)
  16. The Veiled Detective (By:David Stuart Davies) (2004)
  17. The Web Weaver (By:Sam Siciliano) (2012)
  18. The Grimswell Curse (By:Sam Siciliano) (2013)
  19. The Devil’s Promise (By:David Stuart Davies) (2014)
  20. The Albino’s Treasure (By:Stuart Douglas) (2015)
  21. The White Worm (By:Sam Siciliano) (2016)
  22. The Ripper Legacy (By:David Stuart Davies) (2016)
  23. Murder at Sorrow’s Crown (By:Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger) (2016)
  24. The Counterfeit Detective (By:Stuart Douglas) (2016)
  25. The Moonstone’s Curse (By:Sam Siciliano) (2017)
  26. The Improbable Prisoner (By:Stuart Douglas) (2018)
  27. The Devil and the Four (By:Sam Siciliano) (2018)
  28. The Instrument of Death (By:David Stuart Davies) (2019)
  29. The Martian Menace (By:Eric Brown) (2020)
  30. The Venerable Tiger (By:Sam Siciliano) (2020)
  31. The Crusader’s Curse (By:Stuart Douglas) (2020)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Red Highway / The Oklahoma Punk (1976)
  2. The Hider (1980)
  3. Aces and Eights (1981)
  4. The Wolfer (1983)
  5. Mister St. John (1983)
  6. This Old Bill (1984)
  7. Gun Man (1985)
  8. Bloody Season (1987)
  9. Peeper (1989)
  10. Sudden Country (1991)
  11. The Crooked Way (1993)
  12. Billy Gashade (1997)
  13. Journey of the Dead (1998)
  14. The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association (1999)
  15. The Master Executioner (2001)
  16. Black Powder, White Smoke (2002)
  17. The Undertaker’s Wife (2005)
  18. The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion (2006)
  19. Gas City (2008)
  20. The Branch and the Scaffold (2009)
  21. Roy & Lillie: A Love Story (2010)
  22. The Confessions of Al Capone (2013)
  23. Ragtime Cowboys (2014)
  24. The Long High Noon (2015)
  25. Nearly Nero (2017)
  26. The Ballad of Black Bart (2017)
  27. The Eagle and the Viper (2021)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman (1989)
  2. Valentino: Film Detective (2011)
  3. The Bandit & Others (2012)
  4. Evil Grows & Other Thrilling Tales (2012)
  5. The Perils of Sherlock Holmes (2012)
  6. Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes (2013)
  7. The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2014)
  8. Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places (2016)
  9. Contention and Other Frontier Stories (2019)
  10. Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories (2019)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Wister Trace (1955)
  2. Writing the Popular Novel (2004)
  3. Amos Walker’s Detroit (2007)

Bibliomysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  3. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  4. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)
  5. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  6. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  7. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  8. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  11. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  14. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  15. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  16. The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)
  17. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  18. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  22. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  23. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  24. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  25. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  26. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  27. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)

Bibliomysteries Books In Chronological Order

  1. The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)
  2. The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)
  3. Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)
  4. An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)
  5. Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)
  6. Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)
  7. The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)
  8. The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)
  9. The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)
  10. The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)
  11. Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)
  12. What’s in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)
  13. It’s in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)
  14. The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)
  15. Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)
  16. The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)
  17. The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)
  18. The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)
  19. The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)
  20. The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)
  21. From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)
  22. Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)
  23. Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)
  24. Condor in the Stacks (By:James Grady) (2015)
  25. Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)
  26. The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)
  27. The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)
  28. Dead Dames Don’t Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)
  29. Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)
  30. Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)
  31. The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)
  32. The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)
  33. The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)
  34. The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)
  35. The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)

World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  2. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000)
  3. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002)
  4. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 (2003)
  5. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 (2004)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1986)
  2. The Black Moon (1989)
  3. The New Frontier (1989)
  4. City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989)
  5. Invitation to Murder (1991)
  6. New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories (1994)
  7. The Night Awakens (1998)
  8. The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999)
  9. American West (2000)
  10. The Shamus Game (2000)
  11. The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000)
  12. A Century of Great Western Stories (2001)
  13. A Hot And Sultry Night For Crime (2003)
  14. Lost Trails (2007)
  15. At the Scene of the Crime (2008)
  16. Ghost Towns (2010)
  17. The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (2011)
  18. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe (2011)
  19. In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero (2012)
  20. Detroit Is Our Beat (2015)
  21. Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016)
  22. The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife (2017)

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Loren D. Estleman Books Overview

Stamping Ground

Deputy U.S. Marshall Page Murdock isn’t happy when Judge Blackthorne decides to send him on an assignment to north Dakota. He passed through the territory once before and is not eager to return to a land of sudden blizzards and spring floods. And to make matters worse he has been handed the nearly impossible job of apprehending the renegade Cheyenne leader Ghost Shirt, who is responsible for several massacres in the area.

City of Widows

Page Murdock has been sent to the tough New Mexico of 1881 to track down a man and bring him to justice. But more than a trail of revenge, Murdock finds himself on a desperate odyssey. For in the Southwest a friend can turn out to be one’s cruelest enemy, an enemy one’s finest friend. And the woman Murdock loves will be as voluptuous as Venus and wicked as sin.

White Desert

This is the latest installment in a well established Western cop series. The cop is Page Murdoch, U.S. marshal, cynic, tough ass, and the last man you’d want on your tail. In this book Murdoch, Montana based, pursues a vicious gang into the far north of Canada in winter the infinity of snow he encoutners gives the title White Desert. To get his men he must outwit or outmaneuver some aggressive, unpredictable Metis; goes into a colony of American blacks escaped from slavery and still touchy; and a band of Sioux, followers of Crazy Horse fled to Grandmother’s Land for safety.

Port Hazard

Page Murdock doesn t know why someone sent hired killers after him, but he knows where they re coming from. With an unwilling backup man, Murdock takes up temporary residence among the who*res, gamblers, dope addicts, and cutthroats of the continent’s foulest district San Francisco s Barbary Coast. No man here is trustworthy. The enemies he s really worried about, though, are the men who run things, the politicians. Murdock s quest takes him into Chinatown, into opium dens, and into league with a man of an alien culture who controls vices that make respectable people quail. Loren D. Estleman s latest tale of Page Murdock delivers excitement and satisfaction as only Estleman can.

The Book of Murdock

Page Murdock has been many things in his day: a cowhand, a saloonkeeper, a Comanche slave, and, lately, a deputy U.S. marshal. But the one thing the mean faced, middle aged gunman never expected to be was a man of the cloth. Funny how things work out sometimes. Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas. Seems a gang of ruthless bandits is terrorizing the Texas panhandle, and all evidence points to the dusty cattle town as their base of operations. Murdock aims to unmask the gang, provided he can pass himself off as a preacher long enough to stay alive. Imitating a minister troubles his conscience, almost driving him to the Good Book for comfort, and his prickly assignment grows even more complicated when he crosses paths with a shady lady from his past. With one hand on the Bible and the other on his revolver, Murdock navigates shoot outs and Sunday sermons. He might not be well versed in the Gospels, but one thing he knows for certain: avenging angels don t get halos. The Book of Murdock is an outstanding Western adventure by Page Murdock’s celebrated creator, Loren D. Estleman.

Motor City Blue

‘If I see my name in tomorrow’s paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black.’ Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar a semi retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla’s whereabouts is a po*rnographic photograph that clearly proves that she’s become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. . The photo, in turn leads Walker into the seedy world of Detroit’s po*rn shops and blue movies, where Marla’s trail becomes even murkier?. and increasingly more dangerous to follow. . As first cases go, Walker could have certainly asked for one less challenging?…
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Angel Eyes

Loren Estleman, a seasoned suspense writer, involves Amos Walker, a crusty sleuth, with Detroit characters who range from very rich to tough, underworld types. Mystery fans will quickly become addicted to Walker, who manages the menacing facets of his profession with a shot of scotch and a sense of humor. In this highly successful novel, Amos Walker becomes involved with a nightclub dancer who gives him an expensive diamond ring as a retainer and then disappears. This story has all the right ingredients a beautiful woman in trouble, illicit sex, stolen funds, murder, and the unexpected twist at the end. Tough abounds. There is tough talk, tough cops, a tough union boss a la Jimmy Hoffa, tough hoods, and a tough woman editor of a small town newspaper. Relax with the knowledge that a thoroughly pleasant few hours of listening entertainment is in hand.

The Midnight Man

‘Look for us when the moon is new. Look for us, but keep your distance. We’re the Midnight Men, and the prey we’re stalking could be you.’ In the private eye business, mistakes can be fatal. Just ask Amos Walker. First, he pulls his gun on a man he thought was a member of a group of potential truck hijackers. Even goes so far as to fire a round at the suspicious driver to make him step from his car. Only trouble is, the guy Van Sturtevant is a cop. Then, after Sturtevant is crippled in a shootout with a gang of black militants, Walker figuring he owes the cop for letting him off the hook offers his investigatory services to the officer’s pretty, blond wife, Karen. At no charge. If Walker had been paying attention, he would have seen the warning signs. But now bodies are going to start piling up, with politicians, private eyes, and members of Detroit’s Finest on the giving and receiving ends. Yes, mistakes can be fatal. And if Walker doesn’t watch his back, the next one will definitely be his last…
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Sugartown

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.

Every Brilliant Eye

A classic American private eyeB To hear him tell it, Amos Walker is an unsuccessful man in an obsolete profession. Still, even P.I.s have a sense of honor, and Walker has always been a man who believes in paying back favors that people have done for him over the years. He owes his old friend Barry Stackpole a big one, for saving his life in a Cambodian shell crater a lifetime ago. Now Stackpole, lately a good, hard scrounging reporter, has vanished. And finding him is the job Walker’s been hired for not once, but twice: first by Stackpole’s newspaper, then by an attractive literary editor hot to track down an even hotter book the missing man’s been writing. The investigatory trail becomes littered with a bewildering assortment of fresh dead bodies. Walker nearly joins the clutter when somebody rigs his steering and brakes. And a final revelation explosively narrows the distance between the tropical jungles of Asia and the concrete jungles of Detroit and between one brand of war and another…
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Silent Thunder

The tabloids were full of it. Constance Thayer, after a night of clubbing, drinks, and drugs, had taken an automatic pistol from the collection of her industrialist husband Doyle Thayer Jr. and emptied it into his back, as he lay naked and unconscious in their Iroquois Heights home. The news of Constance Thayer’s X rated past breathed new life into the scandal for another month. Walker’s job was to gather enough dirt on the late Mr. Thayer to make his widow look clean by comparison. What he found was a monstrous magnate, a dubious corpse, and a gang of country style gunrunners.

Never Street

Detroit private investigator Amos Walker has accepted a missing persons case. Neil Catalin, a video entrepreneur, disappeared after watching ‘Pitfall’, a Dick Powell potboiler that features a smoldering beauty, a hormone driven private eye, and a murderously jealous lover. For Walker, the clues will be found somewhere among those black and white film images only the truth he finds will be as real and ugly as the darkest recesses of a killer’s mind.

The Witchfinder

In seventeenth century England witchfinders were bearers of false witness and were paid handsomely for their lies. In twentieth century America the pickings are easier, and the pay has gone through the roof. Now, a world renowned architect, a man thought to be dying in a Los Angeles hospital, has called Amos Walker to a hotel room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, to find the person who engineered a heartbreaking lie and cost the architect the one woman he truly loved. It began with a photograph that Jay Bell Furlong didn’t recognize as a fake. It turned into a smashed love affair, with the master builder fleeing to the West Coast and a lonely world of fame, money, and megalomania. As soon as Walker gets the photograph in his hand and hits Detroit’s heat soaked streets, the doctored photo becomes a passport to murder. In a world of tycoons, socialites, cops, and crooks, Walker is turning over rocks in Detroit’s best and worst neighborhoods. What he finds are a lot of people who had plenty of reason to hate Jay Bell Furlong…

The Hours of the Virgin

The Motor City is no place for virgins. Or, for gentlemen, either. This is a city steeped in booms and busts, the sprawling creation of a tinkerer who built a motorized buggy in a shed, the product of waves of immigrant factory workers, the desperate poor, and politicians practiced in the art of corruption. In a little tiny office in the heart of this city, Amos Walker holds on to his dignity, his memories, and his way of doing business. Then he gets a case that brings all three together in a collision that would do the Ford Freeway proud.A slick art expert hires Walker to bodyguard a blackmail transaction involving a priceless work: a long missing piece of fifteenth century illuminated manuscript called The Hours of the Virgin. The exchange is set for a downtown po*rn theater. And it all might have gone according to plan if a beautiful woman with mismatched eyes hadn’t sat down next to Walker in the dark, while someone tried to kill him from behind…
Once again, Estleman unleashes the hippest mystery prose in the business, as he turns a garish big city crime tale into another work of art and another luminous chapter in the saga of Amos Walker, Detroit private eye.

A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

‘I never thought I’d see her again. But never is longer than forever.’ 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 1950s and ask him why he turned down his first book contract in 40 years. Eugene Booth’s trail leads to a rustic motel cabin, where the crusty old pro is hammering out his first novel in decades on a battered Smith Corona with a case of bourbon for inspiration. But when the writer winds up hanging from his own belt, Walker must discover the connection between the apparent suicide, the murder of Booth’s wife 40 years before and a deadly secret as old as World War II.

Sinister Heights

Walker came to Iroquois Heights to meet a very rich old lady. He left with the image of a beauty in boxing gloves etched in his mind and a roughing up from the police for driving without a license plate light. Mrs. Rayellen Stutch, the young widow of one of Detroit’s most powerful industrialists, had given Walker a little job to do. Wanting to unload part of her enormous inheritance on the illegitimate offspring of her late husband, she needed Walker to find them. And show them the money. It’s a simple case…
until Walker discovers the would be millionaires are the textbook dysfunctional family. The battered wife is on the run, the abusive husband is packing a gun and a little remorse, and the kid is caught in between. Walker knows the right places to look for a missing woman and child, but he couldn’t expect what comes next: an act of horrifying violence that leaves a beautiful woman dead and a boy kidnapped. For Walker, what started as an errand of mercy quickly turns into a dirty little war. With at least some members of the Stutch family lined up on the other side, Walker must lay siege to the sprawling fortress that is the Stutch Motors factory. Somewhere in the building the stage is set for a bloody payoff. And trapped in the middle is a private eye who can remember when cars had fins and a city had a dream. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content More than two decades after his introduction in Motor City Blue, Amos Walker is still the same cynical, computer illiterate, lone wolf Detroit private eye he always was. He hasn’t even bothered to update his hard boiled patter. ‘I got out of the robe and into the shower,’ Walker explains partway through Sinister Heights, ‘scraped off the Cro Magnon growth of the night, put on a fresh suit from the cleaners, and drove to the office, where I sat around making a good impression on the walls until the telephone rang at ten.’

However, it’s the pairing of unreconstructed gumshoe with modern malevolence that makes Loren Estleman’s stories interesting. In Sinister Heights, Walker is hired by the fetching young widow of powerful auto maker Leland Stutch. She wants him to locate her hubby’s illegitimate offspring so she can share with them her inheritance and thereby avoid future lawsuits. But the would be heirs have troubles beyond the monetary. Stutch’s granddaughter is on the run from an abusive spouse, and Walker’s efforts to help her only lead to her son’s kidnapping, the violent death of one of the PI’s oldest women friends, a cinematic assault by 18 wheeler trucks on a suburban car factory, and a surprise Stutch progeny who hopes to capture all of the late magnate’s millions.

Estleman’s cops and politicians are caricatures, and he doesn’t give his protagonist much emotional complexity though Walker does bare a bit of beating heart in this book’s fine closing sequence. But he makes up for these faults with his polished plot, a talent for fleshing out characters with a minimum of words, and a robust nostalgia for Detroit’s heyday that almost makes you think fondly of belching smokestacks. J. Kingston Pierce

Poison Blonde

The New York Times calls Amos Walker a ‘streetwise indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys.’ In a sharp new thriller, Detroit’s most savvy private eye is up to his neck in international drug smuggling, hit squads, double identities, music industry gangsters, and a client who’s nothing but trouble. Gilia Cristobal is a flashy Latino singer with a complicated past. Her name isn’t really Gilia. In her home country she’s wanted for a murder she didn’t commit, and she needs Walker to find a missing woman the woman whose name she’s using, whom she’s been paying monthly so she can stay in the U.S. But when the decomposing body of the real Gilia Cristobal is found in the lumberyard next door to her mother’s house, what was merely an odd case becomes downright nasty. And when an undercover death squad from the singer’s home country is spotted by the FBI, the Feds think they’re planning an assassination in Washing ton, but Walker isn’t so sure. His pretty young client is involved in a lot more than just music, and all of it’s deadly. Poison Blonde is an enormously entertaining, fast paced novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Loren D. Estleman has never been better!

Retro

As a detective on the mean streets of Detroit, Amos Walker has to make friends in low places. It’s part of the job. So when the incredibly successful madam Beryl Garnet needs somebody to fulfill her last dying wish, she turns to Walker. She hasn t seen her son in a long, long time, and wants him to have her ashes when she s gone just to let him know she hasn t forgotten about him. Walker obliges her.

Walker finds Garnet s son, Delwayne, a Vietnam War protestor who has been living in Canada since the 1960s, and hands over his mother s ashes. When Walker returns to Detroit, he is surprised to learn that Delwayne is dead and he, Walker, is the prime suspect.

To clear his name, Walker must find the murderer. In the process he discovers another murder, of a prizefighter from the 1940s Curtis Smallwood, Delwayne s father. Walker knows he has his work cut out for him when he discovers that the two murders, fifty three years apart, were committed with the very same gun. And even more puzzling, at the time of Delwayne s murder, the gun was in the limbo of airport security, inaccessible, to say the least.

Nicotine Kiss

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. Clemson, who is also looking for Starzek, says the missing man might be connected to counterfeiters with ties to terrorists.

Walker can’t really see Starzek getting involved in a scheme so different from his usual line of work. When he visits the man’s brother, a minister of an evangelical church, Walker finds a huge stack of treasury paper perfect for printing $20 bills but Starzek’s brother is also missing. The counterfeiters are damn serious serious enough to make Starzek’s brother disappear, and serious enough to try and kill Walker when he pokes around their operation. Hell of a way to protect an investment.

But Walker, gimpy, in pain, cold and tired, can t give up on Starzek. It s a matter of friendship, and he won t let down a friend. He just hopes his loyalty doesn t get him killed.

American Detective

Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet. Ex Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughter’s engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man he believes is after her two million dollar trust. Walker goes to Bairn’s apartment, only to be ambushed by cops. A murder has taken place, and the victim is Fuller’s daughter. Walker and the cops assume that Bairn is the murderer, but Walker has no idea what he is getting into.
Walker is led to a meeting with a casino owner, who tells him Bairn owed money to a loan shark. The loan shark tells Walker that he is not the only one after Bairn. Soon Walker finds himself on the run from crooked cops and vile gangsters. Every time Walker thinks he’s solved the case, he finds out he is farther from the truth than when he started. This case will take all of Walker s cunning, and will prove to be his greatest trial ever!

The Left-Handed Dollar

Joseph Michael Ballista Joey Ballistic to his mob buddies knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or a lefthanded dollar. That’s why he s in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore Lefty Lucy to just about every prosecutor she s ever humiliated in court is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker s first problem? The intended victim was investigative reporter Barry Stackpole, Walker s only true friend. Walker s not thrilled to help get his buddy s would be killer off the hook. But money s money, so he takes the case, though it won t be easy. For starters, the creep s ex wives grudgingly talk to Walker, but he knows they re not leveling with him. And two new murders tied to the case aren t likely to make them any chattier. Walker, friendless and desperate for answers, follows a string of leads old and new straight into a war of nerves and bullets in Detroit s seedy, crime ridden underbelly.

Infernal Angels

Break out the champagne it’s the twenty first Amos Walker noir detective novel!Much like author Loren D. Estleman, Detroit private investigator Amos Walker has long been reluctant to embrace technology he only recently got his first cell phone. Walker is hired to do a twenty first century job recovering 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. The converter boxes were being used to smuggle high grade hero*in that s been killing off junkies left and right, and it s up to Walker to track down the missing dope. Old friends and even older enemies resurface before this story is done, and Walker has to take a few beatings if he wants to find out who has been trafficking the drugs and bring the crooks to justice. This old dog still has a few new tricks, and there hasn t been a case yet that Walker couldn t crack.

General Murders

Detroit’s favorite P.I., Amos Walker, barrels through this collection of five short stories by Shamus Award winner, Loren D. Estleman. General Murders upholds Estleman s reputation as a master of the short story. Both card carrying fans of Amos Walker and those who are new to the series will devour these stories as they, with Walker, expose crime in some of the most corrupt alleys and steamy streets of Detroit. Included in this audiobook are these vintage Walker and Estleman pieces: ‘Greektown,’ ‘Robber s Roost,’ ‘Fast Burn,’ ‘Dead Soldier,’ and ‘Eight Mile and Dequindre.’ The stories rejoice the hard edge, wise cracking, and scandal that typify the genre of private eye fiction. The Oscar nominated star of Jackie Brown, Robert Forster narrates all five stories in this collection. His history of playing detective types in such films as Original Gangstas brings a gritty edged sound to Estleman s work.

Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection

Thirty years ago Loren D. Estleman introduced the world to his Detroit detective Amos Walker. In celebration of this anniversary, Estleman has collected every previously published Walker short story in this massive volume, including a brand new story never before published!An authority on both criminal history and the American West, Loren D. Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Something Borrowed, Something Black

Loren D. Estleman, ‘the absolute best in the hard boiled business’ Philadelphia Inquirer, is best known for his Shamus Award winning Amos Walker series. Walker’s a P.I.; Peter Macklin, ‘the ultimate in hard boiled types’ Newsday, is a killer or was. He got out. He quit the mob, left Detroit, and finally met Laurie, a gorgeous, smart, passionate woman who makes him feel that perhaps life holds more for him than the deadly game of his former profession. Los Angeles. Honeymoon. Only the memories hurt, and she’s so good she knows not to ask him about what he won’t discuss. Then comes the phone call. He’s got to travel to Sacramento to take care of a business matter that he thought was already settled. It’ll just be a day, he tells her, and then they’ll continue their honeymoon. A day pas*ses, and instead of Peter, a man called Abilene shows up, sent, says Peter’s note, to take care of her while he’s gone. But when Laurie tires of Abilene’s hick, country ways and attempts to break away from him, one hard moment tells her that he’s no friend and that she’s having the Honeymoon from Hell. Peter loves her, doesn’t he? If he did, would he leave her with his ‘friend’? Peter has his own problems, taking care of business, nasty business, in San Antonio, and it isn’t pretty. What has he gotten her into? Will it ever end? Or will he always be a killer? Laurie just wished she could know…
but right now, she’s not sure she wants to know. And Macklin? He’s not sure of anything, anymore.

Little Black Dress

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HIT MAN MEETS HIS NEW MOTHER IN LAW?
Multiple Shamus Award winner Loren D. Estleman is a superb stylist as well as a deft storyteller who paints his people and his city with acerbic wit and wry affection San Diego Union Tribune. Peter Macklin was a hit man for a long time but he has taken steps to distance himself from his tattooed past, like quitting the mob, moving away from Detroit, and marrying the gorgeous, intelligent Laurie. But retirement isn t easy for an ex hit man.

Now the man accustomed to killing people in cold blood must adjust to a sad*istic ritual of early marriage he must spend time with his eccentric mother in law. This event takes an unexpected turn when Macklin discovers mom in law’s boyfriend Benjamin Grinnell is a spotter for a gang of armed robbers. Unfortunately, Grinnell made a big mistake: he failed to spot a shotgun toting shop owner, whom the gang had to turn into red mist. Now Grinnell s life is threatened, and Grinnell s jeopardy endangers his sweetie and Laurie.

Macklin, driven by his professional curiosity and his desire to protect his family, can t help but get involved. As Macklin investigates Grinnell s dark affairs, he inevitably gets tangled up with Grinnell s enemies, including the Ohio mob and the law. All parties converge in a deadly shootout, with the lives of Macklin s loved ones and the fate of his marriage precariously hanging in the balance.

Whiskey River

In Detroit in 1925 prohibition has been in force for a year longer than the rest of the States, police corruption is so rampant no one notices the stench in City Hall. Into this scene comes Constantine Minor, a young and ambitious reporter. The author has twice won the Shamus Award.

Edsel

Connie Minor must sell the nation on the Ford Edsel. Meanwhile, power hungry Ford executives, self righteous union bosses, a city attorney and a mobster cartel plan venomous schemes and it’s up to Connie to expose the crime beneath the chrome.

Stress

A continuation of the popular Detroit series traces the experiences of Charlie Battle, a black rookie policeman, who joins an elite undercover squad known for its shoot first philosophy and its anti black prejudice.

Jitterbug

A tough town in a tough time: Detroit during World War II where the U.S. furiously tried to outmanufacture the Germans and Japanese. Industry importer workers to replace men gone to war Southern whites and blacks working side by side for the first time. Through this tense, troubled world cuts a killer, a self appointed soldier savaging ordinary people, the defenseless. Lieutenant Zagreb’s most important job is to keep the city from exploding, but his job doesn’t stop there. He must catch a mad killer with a cop roster of 4 Fs and near retirees and he has to save his own soul. But, he can’t succeed at all three.

Thunder City

Thunder City presents Detroit in the process of becoming the Motor City. Harlan Crownover, scion of a great family of carriage makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run by Henry Ford, who has failed twice before in the automobile business. Desperate for funds, Harlan turns to Big . Jim Dolan, the Midwest’s most powerful political boss, and Sal Borneo, a visionary mafioso struggling to bring the commerce of vice into the new century. Allies at first, they soon will be mortal enemies. At the crisis, only Edith Hampton Crownover, Harlan’s troubled, aristocratic mother, will be in a position to shift the balance of power.

Frames

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 baseme*nt, 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 mentor, the noted film scholar Broadhead, and Fanta, a feisty if slightly flaky young law student. Between a budding romance with a beautiful forensics investigator and visions of Von Stroheim s ghost, Valentino s madcap race to save the flick is as fast and frenetic as a classic screwball comedy. A quirky cast of characters, smart dialogue and a touch of romance make this Estleman’s most engaging and accessible novel to date.

Alone

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 Matthew 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 his assistant, Akers, is using this letter to blackmail him. Val is appalled by the thought of blackmail but that letter sounds juicier all the time. Returning to Rankin s mansion after the party, Val finds Rankin sitting at his desk with a pistol in his hand, looking at Akers s dead body on the floor. Valentino s in a quandary. He d love to see that letter, but he can t. He s gotten his girlfriend who works for the police in trouble, so his love life is, pardon the expression, shot to hell. Worse yet, the building inspector has kicked him out of his unfinished living space in the Oracle, so he takes his life in his hands and moves in with his eccentric mentor, the elderly, insomniac Professor Broadhead. No love, no sleep, no letter life isn t fair!

The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (By:Philip José Farmer)

Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread…
A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives…
And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street’s enigmatic mystery solver and Greystoke, the noble savage, peer of the realm and lord of the jungle, team up to bring down the hellish hun!This edition also contains a brand new afterword by Win Scott Eckert and a bonus preview of the new Kim Newman novel, Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles.

War of the Worlds (By:Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman)

Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out…
Manly and Wade Wellman’s novel takes H.G. Wells’s classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprising and unexpected results. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

Sherlock vs Dracula

THE ADVENTURES OF THE SANGUINARY COUNT The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passanger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard, but what can account for the captain’s expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship’s strange cargo fifty boxes of earth? The game is affot, and Sherlock Holmes, aided as ever by the faithful Dr. Watson, finds himself on the trail of no mortal enemy, but the arch vampire himself Count Dracula…
From the impalement of the ‘Bloofer Lady’ to the abduction of Watson’s belowed wife, Mary, from the death of a harmless prostitute to a terrifying conclusion on a lonely beach, this unique case is at once a glorious celebration of two of the most famous literary genres, a riveting thriller with sensational climaxes, and a tale guaranteed to delight all Holmes and Dracula lovers everywhere.

The Stalwart Companions (By:H. Paul Jeffers)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

Written by future President Theordore Roosevelt long before The Great Detective s first encounter with Dr. Watson, Holmes visits America to solve a most violent and dispicable crime. A crime that was to prove his most taxing of his brilliant career…

Recently discovered in the baseme*nt of the New York Police Department, The Stalwart Companions is one of Holmes most exciting and unusual chronicles.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectable London doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew the blackest mystery of his career! Although Robert Louis Stevenson published his tale of Jekyll and Hyde as fiction, the hideous facts were true, insofar as Stevenson knew them. Here, then, is the entire firsthand account of that devilish crime as recorded by Dr. Watson, with an explanation of why Holmes’s personal involvement had to be kept secret until now…
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The Whitechapel Horrors (By:Edward B. Hanna)

Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes comes to believe they are the skilful work of one man, a man who earns the gruesome epithet of Jack the Ripper. As the investigation proceeds, Holmes realizes that the true identity of the Ripper puts much more at stake than just catching a killer

The Seventh Bullet (By:Daniel D. Victor)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective. Sherlock Holmes desire for a peaceful life in the Sussex countryside is dashed when true life muckraker and author David Graham Phillips is assassinated, leaving behind little clues as to why he was murdered. The pleas of his sister draws Holmes and Watson to the far side of the Atlantic, where a web of deceit, violence and intrigue unravels as they embark on one of their most challenging cases.

Seance for a Vampire (By:Fred Saberhagen)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective. When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose Altamont and his wife the opportunity to contact their recently deceased daughter, the wealthy British aristocrat wastes no time in hiring Sherlock Holmes to expose their hoax. He arranges for the celebrated detective and Dr. Watson to attend the family’s next seance, confident in Holmes’ rationalist outlook on the situation. But what starts as cruel mockery becomes deadly reality when young, beautiful Louisa Altamont appears to her parents in the flesh as one of the nosferatu a vampire! The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudulent spiritualists dead. Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and mystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the only one who might be able to help Holmes’ vampire cousin, Prince Dracula. Alternately narrated by Watson and the charismatic Dracula himself, Seance for a Vampire demonstrates that heroes are sometimes found in the most unlikely places. Saberhagen has recast Bram Stoker’s paragon of evil into a noble, witty and chillingly powerful character.

The Angel of the Opera (By:Sam Siciliano)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. The Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Scroll of the Dead (By:David Stuart Davies)

Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a man hell bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster…
In this fast paced adventure, the action moves from London to the picturesque Lake District as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson once more battle with the forces of evil. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Man from Hell (By:Barrie Roberts)

In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found beaten to death on the grounds of his estate. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel the mystery by pitting their wits against a ruthless new enemy, taking them across the globe in search of the killer. By turns both thrilling and daring, The Man From Hell braves dark new territories in the Holmes mythology and is an invaluable addition to the library of any Holmes fan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By:Carole Buggé)

‘Watson, do you believe in ghosts?’ With this question, Sherlock Holmes shatters the calm of a quiet evening in their London flat and, with Dr. John Watson at his side, embarks upon a particularly strange case. Holmes has received a request for aid from Lord Charles Cary, whose family is seemingly being threatened by ghosts in and around the family manor. The manor is Torre Abbey, a twelfth century monastery in Torquay, Devon, and it has a long history of hauntings. While skeptical of the supernatural, Holmes does believe that the Cary family is in danger a belief which proves to be horrifyingly accurate when, shortly after they arrive at Torre Abbey, a household member dies suddenly, mysteriously, and seemingly of fright. As strange sightings and threatening apparitions become almost commonplace, Holmes must uncover the secrets of the haunted abbey and the family that lives there if he is to have any hope of protecting the living and avenging the dead. In a case that taxes his wits, and seems beyond the reach of his usual methods, Holmes must grapple with his most deadly and unforgiving foe.

The Veiled Detective (By:David Stuart Davies)

A young Sherlock Holmes arrives in London to begin his career as a private detective, catching the eye of the master criminal, Professor James Moriarty. Enter Dr. Watson, newly returned from Afghanistan, soon to make history as Holmes companion…
By turns both shocking and exciting, David Stuart Davies controversial take on the Holmes mythology is a modern classic in crime fiction that will defy all expectations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Web Weaver (By:Sam Siciliano)

When a mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball and a series of terrible misfortunes begin to affect those who attended that night, Mr. Donald Wheelwight engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened that fateful evening. With the help of his cousin Dr. Henry Vernier and his wife Michelle, Holmes endeavors to save Wheelwright and his beautiful wife Violet from the devastating curse. As the threats to the captivating Violet mount, Holmes is drawn in deeper and deeper, finding himself entangled in a vast dark web involving prostitution, perversion, theft, and blackmail. A brand new, never before published addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

Aces and Eights

Dead Man’s HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a . 44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok’s brain at point blank range. Deadwood’s legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of Aces and Eights, a dead man’s hand. The question the law wanted to know: was McCall a hired killer or did he kill Hickok to avenge his brother’s death?

This Old Bill

Three Time Golden Spur Award WinnerThis novel, based on the life of Buffalo Bill Cody, is as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, and scout for General Custer, this legendary American beat the paths that made way for the railroad in America’s rugged frontier. But now, in his final hours, old Bill Cody faces the last great challenge of his life, as the legendary glory flares then fades into a new era…
‘Estleman has no rival not even Louis L’Amour.’ Kirkus Reviews

Gun Man

From one of the most renowned storytellers of our time comes a novel of a wanted man seeking refuge in the legendary Missouri militia. Estleman has no rival not even Louis L’Amour in evoking the American Southwest.’ Kirkus Reviews’Estleman rivals the finest American novelists.’ The Washington Post

Bloody Season

From the three time Golden Spur Award winner the classic novel about Tombstone, Arizona…
‘Pistol hot…
rawhide tough.’ Kirkus Reviews’Gritty and unwashed realism…
a brutal showdown.’ Elmer Kelton’High drama…
so real you can smell the horses.’ Elmore Leonard’Raw, realistic, myth exploding.’ Booklist The gunfight at O.K. Corral is the ultimate Western adventure and Estleman’s novel is the definitive account Estleman is the author of This Old Bill, Journey of the Dead, Billy Gashade, and City of Widows ‘High Drama…
Estleman’s account of events following the O.K. Corral gunfight is the best one I’ve ever read, by far.’ Elmore Leonard

Sudden Country

A map which may point to a cache of gold lost during the Civil War leads a young treasure hunter on the adventure of a lifetime one step ahead of Quantrill’s raiders. ‘Estleman has no rival in evoking the American Southwest.’ Kirkus Reviews’Estleman rivals the finest American novelists.’ The Washington Post Book World Loren D. Estleman is a four time Golden Spur Award winner

Billy Gashade

Billy Gashade is a wandering musician crossing the young United States in the late 1800s, and introducing us to its most colorful characters along the way. Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Chief Crazy Horse, Oscar Wilde, and many many more cross paths with Billy in this sweeping epic of American History.

Journey of the Dead

This is a novel of American history and its journey from wild frontier into the twentieth century. Two witnesses to this turbulent evolution tell their stories. One is an ancient Spanish alchemist searching for the philosopher’s stone from his hut in the New Mexico desert. He devotes his long life to hunting for the secrets of the old gods. But will they give him the answers to his quest for meaning? The other is the fabled Pat Garrett, the man who killed his poker buddy, Billy the Kid. Haunted by Billy for the rest of his life, Pat Garrett searches for peace. Together and separately, Garrett and the alchemist journey through time and history searching for answers to their ancient questions.

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

Hollywood, 1913: In the dusty desert community of Los Angeles, a ragtag film company cranks out silent movies in defiance of the law. Young Dmitri Pulski works for his father’s ice company in the snowy Sierra Nevadas when he journeys south to investigate an astonishing order for ten tons of ice by something called The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association. Almost immediately, Dmitri, an aspiring writer, finds himself writing movie scenarios. But things get skewed when The Rocky is threatened with foreclosure by the local sheriff they’re grinding out their movies just outside the reach of the monopolistic eastern Trust, which claims exclusive right to make moving pictures under Thomas Edison’s patent. The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association is the story of the frontier’s last boomtown, whose cast of ‘big guns’ includes D. W. Griffith, Tom Mix, Lillian Gish, and unseen villain Thomas Edison.

The Master Executioner

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 piece of his past catches him unawares, and Oscar comes to a moment of devastating truth and for the first time knows himself.

Black Powder, White Smoke

Two men, black and white. In New Orleans, the black man, Honey Boutrille, saves a prostitute’s life by killing her attacker. In San Francisco, the white man, Twice Emmerson, kills a Chinaman because he likes killing. These two men go on the lam, and their adventures, nip and tuck through scrape after scrape, are the zest of Loren Estleman s wildest tale of the West. The protagonists are different as black and white Honey rough but honorable, Emmerson chaotic and violent. They attract not only the dogs of the law but the avid interest of those who would exploit them. A journalist tracks Honey, eager to turn his life story into a cautionary parable that will chill white readers. A showman seeks Emmerson, cynically eager to sign him to a contract for the stage and create a competitor to Buffalo Bill. Honey and Emmerson rage through an authentic West drawn with a fierce and gleeful truthfulness, leaving trails of bodies, pursued ever more relentlessly, and moving always toward a central and inescapable meeting place, Denver, Colorado. The meeting has the scope, inevitability, and shattering power of Greek tragedy.

The Undertaker’s Wife

The Undertaker’s Wife waits; she weaves; she builds. The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every hazard in a raw West these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier, which erupts with life and death, he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead. She is devoted to making her marriage whole, in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it and, most especially, in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center. Today the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama, for only his art can save America’s financial markets. Her task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. In the end, it is The Undertaker’s Wife who, through love, is able to transcend death.

The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion

Johnny Vermillion’s theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. A few props, a little makeup, a costume and voil applause on the rugged frontier. Johnny also arranges a special attraction for each town. While his actors bustle in and out of costumes, on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the actors take their curtain calls and railroad away. Who? Us? Rob a bank? But you saw all of us on stage. When could we have done that?A Pinkerton man becomes the troupe s severest critic: He notices the news reports of stage performances one day and bank robberies the next. He follows the troupe, packing his suspicions. Finally, he sets a clever trap. Johnny Vermillion is one of the most entertaining rogues ever to turn a dishonest dollar. Any audience will love a troupe that can transform A Midsummer Night s Dream into grand larceny.

Gas City

Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces greed and corruption, ambition and desire run out of control in the wake of a serial killer’s grisly rampage. A power struggle between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city’s vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival. Setting this drama in a blue collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.

The Branch and the Scaffold

When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Inheriting a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, he immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hanging six convicted felons at one time. For the next two decades, his stern and implacable justice brought law and order to the West…
and made him plenty of enemies.

As the sole law on the untamed frontier, Parker tried civil and criminal cases throughout the Western District of Arkansas and the Indian Nations. Only God and the president had the power to challenge Parker. His severe judgments scandalized Washington and the Eastern press, and took an onerous toll on his private life, but the Hanging Judge of the Border never flinched from his duty. Over the years, he and his marshals, dubbed Parker’s Men, ran up against some of the most colorful and dangerous outlaws the West had to offer, including the notorious Dalton Gang; Belle Star, the Bandit Queen; the murderous Cherokee Bill; and Ned Christie, a vengeful Indian who carried on a private war against the U.S. government for seven years.

The Branch and the Scaffold is a fascinating depiction of Judge Parker s life and times, as told by a five time winner of the Spur Award.

Roy & Lillie: A Love Story

A unique novel of England and the Old WestRoy was Judge Roy Bean, the infamous, notorious real life Justice of the Peace whose life has been the source of biographies, novels, plays, and films. Lillie was Lillie Langtry, the celebrated Jersey Lily of the British stage. They never met, but they wrote letters to each other. From very different backgrounds, living vastly different lives, separated by an ocean and most of a continent, these two unforgettable people share something unique in the lost letters of this novel. For many years Bean, the cantankerous self styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. And they would have met, if Bean had not died shortly before Lillie, after years of this strange but poignant correspondence, finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer. In this story of letters lost, Loren D. Estleman, with all the nuance and narrative skill that has won him multiple Spur Awards, brings to life an untold chapter of transatlantic love that is as tender as it is unique.

Writing the Popular Novel

Bestselling author Loren D. Estleman has honed his craft throughout a career spanning more than 50 novels. Now readers can benefit from his expertise with Writing the Popular Novel. With engaging, uplifting advice, this book gives aspiring authors a guide to making their dreams come true and features: An overview of literary genres and how to decide which one is best suited for the reader Tips on how to conduct researchand how to make the leap from research to writing An in depth look at dialogue, point of view, and other techniques As compelling as it is insightful, this book is the one you can’t do without!

Amos Walker’s Detroit

Amos Walker’s Detroit visits dozens of unforgettable locations from Loren D. Estleman s Amos Walker series. As Estleman says of Detroit in the preface: It s a hard boiled town, and the crumbling buildings and rusting railroad tracks of the warehouse district, the palaces across the limits in Grosse Pointe, and the black hole shadows of the Cass Corridor were made to order for a remaindered knight chasing truth through a maze of threats, deceptions, and inconvenient corpses. City and protagonist are cut from the same coarse cloth. They are the series two heroes. Amos Walker s Detroit allows Estleman s settings to take center stage as noted photographer Monte Nagler turns his lens to Estleman s various noir locations. Some locations are well known landmarks, like the Renaissance Center, the Wayne County Building, Belle Isle, and Mexicantown, and some are fictional locales such as Walker s home and office. Even when the locations are familiar, Nagler s lens renders them in fresh and unexpected ways. Excerpts from Estleman s novels describing the locations accompany each image and Estleman s thoughtful introduction contextualizes the images and comments on the role of Detroit as a noir backdrop. The photographs in Amos Walker s Detroit show the city in a new light, demonstrating that Detroit s grit and glamour coexist in unexpected places and make a perfect setting for a mystery. Fans of the Amos Walker series, as well as those interested in photography, architecture, and local culture will appreciate this handsome volume. Amos Walker s Detroit allows Estleman s settings to take center stage as noted photographer Monte Nagler turns his lens to Estleman s various noir locations. Some locations are well known landmarks, like the Renaissance Center, the Wayne County Building, Belle Isle, and Mexicantown, and some are fictional locales such as Walker s home and office. Even when the locations are familiar, Nagler s lens renders them in fresh and unexpected ways. Excerpts from Estleman s novels describing the locations accompany each image and Estleman s thoughtful introduction contextualizes the images and comments on the role of Detroit as a noir backdrop. The photographs in Amos Walker s Detroit show the city in a new light, demonstrating that Detroit s grit and glamour coexist in unexpected places and make a perfect setting for a mystery. Fans of the Amos Walker series, as well as those interested in photography, architecture, and local culture will appreciate this handsome volume.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. Jon L. Breen, England Maxim Jakubowski, Canada Edo Van Belkom, Australia David Honeybone, and Germany Thomas Woertche. Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year s compilation, the best value for money of any such anthology. The A to Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard Lawrence Block Jon L. Breen Wolfgang Burger Lillian Stewart Carl Margaret Coel Max Allan Collins Bill Crider Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Susanna Gregory Joseph Hansen Carolyn G. Hart Lauren Henderson Edward D. Hoch Clark Howard Tatjana Kruse Paul Lascaux Dick Lochte Peter Lovesey Mary Jane Maffini Ed McBain Val McDermid Marcia Muller Joyce Carol Oates Anne Perry Nancy Pickard Bill Pronzini Ruth Rendell S. J. Rozan Billie Rubin Kristine Kathryn Rusch Stephan Rykena David B. Silva Nancy Springer Jac. Toes John Vermeulen Donald E. Westlake Carolyn Wheat.

The Night Awakens

The crowned Queen of Suspense, 1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes of passion. Now, in that same haunting tradition, she invites a star studded cast of authors to share original stories of men and women joined in love…
and driven to murder.

Sara Shankman puts a chilling new spin on payback…
Joseph Hansen slaps a rancher with a cold wake up call out on the trail…
Loren D. Estleman cuts a honeymoon short when a bride learns she’s married to the mob…
Brendan DuBois drives a brother to distractionon the road to revenge…
Sally Gunning pushes jealousy to a murderous extreme…
Nancy Pickard exposes the truth behind the headlines as a young love leads to old fashioned homicide…
and a panoply of other renouned writers spellbind us with the seductive charms of love, lust, and other lethal attractions.

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a peerless suspense anthology. Compiled by the best selling mystery novelist Ed McBain, this year’s edition boasts nineteen outstanding tales by such masters as John Updike, Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, and Joyce Carol Oates as well as stories by rising stars such as Edgar Award winners Tom Franklin and Thomas H. Cook. The 1999 volume is a spectacular showcase for the high quality and broad diversity of the year’s finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing. ‘Keller’s Last Refuge’ by Lawrence Block, ‘Safe’ by Gary A. Braunbeck, ‘Fatherhood’ by Thomas H. Cook, ‘Wrong Time, Wrong Place’ by Jeffery Deaver, ‘Netmail’ by Brendan DuBois, ‘Redneck’ by Loren D. Estleman, ‘And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing’ by Gregory Fallis, ‘Poachers’ by Tom Franklin, ‘Hitting Rufus’ by Victor Gischler, ‘Out There in the Darkness’ by Ed Gorman, ‘Survival’ by Joseph Hansen, ‘A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail’ by David K. Harford, ‘An Innocent Bystander’ by Gary Krist, ‘The Jailhouse Lawyer’ by Phillip M. Margolin, ‘Secret, Silent’ by Joyce Carol Oates, ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Peter Robinson, ‘Dry Whiskey’ by David B. Silva, ‘Sacrifice’ by L. L. Thrasher, ‘Bech Noir’ by John Updike

American West

Once, there was a world where the heroes were defined by their white clothing and the bad guys always wore black. The town sheriff always gunned down the wild gunslinger while the lady in distress cowered. The Indian was to be feared, not understood, and the white man always saved the day. This was the traditional Western. But times change, as did the Western. The evolving Western is told from the point of view of blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, Catholics, women, and men. It is about America; it is about life. Whether a story’s central element is a hangman or a midwife, a piano or a cowboy who hates tomatoes, you may be certain of one thing, if the tale reflects an expanding continent, it reflects the American West.

The Shamus Game

From the Private Eye Writers of America comes this collection of all new stories by an all star lineup of Shamus Award winners and their literary PIs. Includes stories by: Jeremiah Healy Loren D. Estleman Max Allan Collins Jerry Kennealy John Lutz Parnell Hall Edward D. Hoch Gary Phillips Rick Riordan Les Roberts Christine Matthews S. J. Rozan Terence Faherty Bill Pronzoni

A Century of Great Western Stories

John Jakes, 1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled in one volume a century’s worth of his favorite Western fiction. To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L’Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the stories have changed over the years, certain timeless themes of Western fiction remain constant. At the heart of the stories are ideas that have become synonymous with the American dream the frontier spirit, individual freedoms, and man’s relationship with the land. A Century of Great Western Stories is essentially a retrospective of western writing over the past century, but Jakes also sets out to give readers a glimpse of what the future might hold for western fiction. While trends in publishing might not always be promising, the current crop of contemporary Western authors show that the old west will always have a place in the world of fiction. Like the American dream which it celebrates, Western fiction will perservere. Featuring classc stories by:John Jakes, Mantiow and IronhandJohn M. Cunningham, The Tin Star, which became the classic Western film, High NoonJack London, All Gold CanyonLouis L’Amour, The Gift of CochiseThomas Thompson, Gun JobElmer Kelton, The Burial of Letty StrayhornLoren D. Estleman, Hell on the DrawJack Schaffer, author of Shane, Sergerant Houck

A Hot And Sultry Night For Crime

When temperatures rise, tempers flare in this all new anthology of short stories…
From the Mystery Writers of America, edited by Edgar nominated author Jeffery Deaver, comes a collection of twenty original stories by mystery’s finest authors, set in hot climates where jealousy, greed, and murderous rage reach the boiling point…
Featuring original stories by: Jeffery Deaver David Handler Ronnie Klaskin Toni L.P. Kelner Suzanne C. Johnson Loren D. Estleman John Lutz Gary Brandner Mat Coward Angela Zeman Robert Lee Hall Tim Myers G. Miki Hayden Jeremiah Healy Alan Cook David Bart Ana Rainwater Sinclair Browning Marilyn Wallace Carolyn Wheat

Lost Trails

They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and magazine headlines while the Wild West was won. ‘Lost Trails‘ features inventive, hard riding, action packed stories by America’s best Western writers. Louis L’Amour, Elmer Kelton, William W. Johnstone, Loren Estleman, Johnny Boggs, Don Coldsmith, and many more, share tales of the legends born out of the wild frontier. So sit a spell and listen to a good ol’ yarn about Mark Twain’s meeting with Buffalo Bill, a man who shoed horses for Jesse James, or a little known nugget about Cochise by the legendary Louis L’Amour…
and for a time, you can find yourself riding those ‘Lost Trails‘ with the real people that make the legends of the West come alive today.

At the Scene of the Crime

With the long term success of procedural shows dominating prime time television, the readership for a forensic anthology extends well beyond traditional mystery readers.

Collected by Martin H. Greenberg the King of Anthologists this volume features the following contributors:

Brendan DuBois
Edward D. Hoch
Michael A. Black
Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
Jeremiah Healy
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Julie Hyzy, John Lutz
Maynard Thomson
Noreen Ayres
Loren D. Estleman
Jeanne C. Stein

Ghost Towns

The sound of a crowded saloon…
The cry of a train coming through the night…
The pounding of horses ridden by friends or foe…
From the searing sun to snow steeped winters, towns called Sentinel, Iron Mountain, and St. Elmo stood strong and fierce before they finally died. Now, these Ghost Towns return to life under the spell of such great Western tale tellers as Louis L’Amour, Elmer Kelton, William W. Johnstone, Bill Brooks, Loren D. Estleman, Johnny D. Boggs, and ‘New York Times’ bestseller Margaret Coel. From a soldier on the run from the fires of war…
From a gambler who has long since played his last hand…
To a solitary, singing rifle man protecting a besieged town…
With dreamers and schemers, with men and women of courage, conscience, and faith, here is an unforgettable round up of astounding adventures fuelled by a passion for the West the way it really was and the way it lives on forever.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

Best selling novelist Harlan Coben, a master of suspense and creator of the critically acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, edits this latest collection of the must reads in mysteries from the past year.

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe

Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century’s most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic yet full of despair; a gentleman capable of rough violence. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler’s last Marlowe adventure:The Pencil. The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles.

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