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Amos Walker novels volume 15
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English
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Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband's illegitimate children. Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering...
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Publisher
Tyrus books
Language
English
Description
Based on the Nero Wolfe series--one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world--a collection of Nero Wolfe--inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era. From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe--the eccentric, orchid-breeding detective genius--as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman. Nearly Nero...
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A newscaster's son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a ten-thousand-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem: His twenty-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him. The boy and his...
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Amos Walker novels volume 22
Language
English
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Targeted by suspicious fires and bottle bombs for attempting to extract a relative from a Mexican town gang, Amos Walker struggles to forge peace between two rival gangs only to discover ties to an international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 21
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Working to overcome his technophobic inclinations to help recover stolen goods for an electronics retailer, Detroit private investigator Amos Walker is forced to team up with the local police and the FBI when two men connected to the case are murdered.
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Detroit PI Amos Walker searches for a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript - and for evidence that can put his former partner's killer behind bars. Hired by a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts to serve as his bodyguard during a transaction involving a stolen illuminated manuscript, Amos Walker enters a darkened skin-flick theater where the exchange is supposed to take place. When the deal goes south, he's lucky to leave with his life......
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 18
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Convalescing after a near-fatal shooting, hard-boiled detective Amos Walker learns that the cigarette smuggler who had saved his life has gone missing, a case that is complicated by the man's suspected involvement in a counterfeiting operation.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 14
Language
English
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In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 23
Publisher
Forge Books, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 28
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Language
English
11) City walls
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 31
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"The search for a fugitive embezzler leads Amos Walker to Cleveland, where he is hired by Emmett Yale, a leading figure in the electric car industry, to investigate the murder of his stepson. Yale believes that his stepson's hitman is connected to Clare Strickling, a former employee, and his attempts to silence whispers that he has bought illegal insider-trading information. Walker shadows Strickling to a private airfield as he attempts to flee the...
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Series
Amos Walker novels volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Flashy Latino singer Gilia Cristobal, wanted in her native country for a murder she did not commit, hires private investigator Amos Walker to find the missing person whose identity Gilia has been paying to use.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 17
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to return the ashes of a successful madam to her long-absent son, Detroit detective Amos Walker completes the task only to learn that the son has been murdered and that he, Walker, has been named a prime suspect.
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English
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"The monkey in the middle is the one who "hears no evil." Private eye Amos Walker doesn't have that luxury. Hearing the truth, on the other hand, is a lot less common, even from people who need his help. It's summer in Detroit and Walker's just received word that his ex-wife has passed away. He can use a distraction, which arrives in the form of a young, would-be investigative journalist who has gotten in way over his head. He needs Walker's protection,...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 20
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Hired by a corrupt lawyer to investigate an old mafia murder attempt on the life of his best friend, private detective Amos Walker reluctantly follows a string of vague leads in Detroit's underworld.
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 24
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
Private detective Amos Walker's investigation into Donald Gates' death is complicated by a reward being offered by an anonymous donor from the dead man's church and a Ukranian mobster in the Witness Protection Program.
17) Cutthroat dogs
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 29
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide. Suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend; Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it? After Corbeil's sister has a chance meeting with Amos Walker, she hires him to prove her brother's innocence. But nobody else is eager to see this very cold case reopened... even Dan himself, who has given up any hope of bring...
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