Loren D. Estleman Books In Order
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The High Rocks | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stamping Ground | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murdock's Law | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stranglers | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of Widows | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Desert | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Port Hazard | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Murdock | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cape Hell | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Justice | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Amos Walker Books
Motor City Blue | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Angel Eyes | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Midnight Man | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Glass Highway | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sugartown | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Brilliant Eye | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Yesterday | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Downriver | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Thunder | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Women Lie | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Never Street | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witchfinder | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hours of the Virgin | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Smile on the Face of the Tiger | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sinister Heights | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poison Blonde | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Retro | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nicotine Kiss | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Detective | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Left-Handed Dollar | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infernal Angels | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burning Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Look for Me | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Know Who Killed Me | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sundown Speech | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lioness Is the Hunter | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black and White Ball | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When Old Midnight Comes Along | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cut-Throat Dogs | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monkey in the Middle | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City Walls | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Amos Walker Collections
General Murders | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Peter Macklin Books
Kill Zone | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roses are Dead | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Any Man's Death | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Borrowed, Something Black | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Black Dress | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Detroit Books
Whiskey River | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Motown | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King of the Corner | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Edsel | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stress | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jitterbug | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thunder City | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Valentino Books
Frames | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alone | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alive! | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shoot | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brazen | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Indigo | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vamp | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War of the Worlds | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Rat of Sumatra | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock vs Dracula | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stalwart Companions | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ectoplasmic Man | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whitechapel Horrors | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventh Bullet | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seance for a Vampire | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angel of the Opera | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Titanic Tragedy | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Star of India | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll of the Dead | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from Hell | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting of Torre Abbey | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Veiled Detective | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Between the Thames and the Tiber: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Web Weaver | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grimswell Curse | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Promise | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Albino's Treasure | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Worm | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ripper Legacy | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at Sorrow's Crown | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Counterfeit Detective | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moonstone's Curse | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Improbable Prisoner | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil and the Four | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Instrument of Death | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1: 1881-1891 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Martian Menace | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Venerable Tiger | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crusader's Curse | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Red Highway / The Oklahoma Punk | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hider | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aces and Eights | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wolfer | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mister St. John | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Old Bill | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gun Man | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloody Season | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peeper | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sudden Country | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Billy Gashade | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Journey of the Dead | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Master Executioner | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Powder, White Smoke | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Undertaker's Wife | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gas City | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Branch and the Scaffold | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roy & Lillie: A Love Story | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Confessions of Al Capone | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ragtime Cowboys | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long High Noon | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nearly Nero | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ballad of Black Bart | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eagle and the Viper | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paperback Jack | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Dead Soldier | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Greektown | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eight Mile and Dequindre | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I’m in the Book | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bodyguards Shoot Second | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Loved Noir | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cigarette Stop | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Safe House | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crooked Way | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slipstream | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Alchemist | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady on Ice | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Square One | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trust Me | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kill the Cat | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bandit | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sob Sister | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valentino: Film Detective | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bandit & Others | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evil Grows & Other Thrilling Tales | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perils of Sherlock Holmes | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Contention and Other Frontier Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legend | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Wister Trace | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writing the Popular Novel | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amos Walker's Detroit | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mysterious Profiles Books
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack Taylor | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack Reacher | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Charlie Parker | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hieronymus Bosch | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lincoln Rhyme | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alex Delaware | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tess Monaghan | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Charlie Resnick | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inspector Morse | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dismas Hardy | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bob Lee Swagger | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lou Boldt | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spenser | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Rebus | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mallory | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jane Whitefield | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amos Walker | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Precious Ramotswe | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maisie Dobbs | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lincoln Lawyer | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Deadly Allies Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Mean Streets | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Matter of Crime | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Moon | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Frontier | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City Sleuths and Tough Guys | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Frankenstein | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invitation to Murder | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Allies | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Allies II | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How the West Was Read, Volume 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holmes for the Holidays | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Awakens | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the American West II | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Holmes for the Holidays | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American West | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shamus Game | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Century of Great Western Stories | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder, My Dear Watson | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Trails | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detroit Noir | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Scene of the Crime | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Towns | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Pursuit of Spenser | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detroit Is Our Beat | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bob Seger's House and Other Stories | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loren D. Estleman is a noteworthy author of the mystery, thriller and western genres. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States and has written a number of successful novel series’ in his writing career. He was born on September 15, 1952 in Michigan. In all, he has written a total of 6 different mystery novel series’ and most of them have been widely popular because of unique character descriptions and plot development by author Estleman. He began his writing career in the year 1976 when he wrote his first novel. Since then, he went on to write around 70 books and more than hundreds of articles and short stories. Based on the success of his career as an author of the mystery and thriller genre Estleman has received a lot of proposals for writing future novels in the historical western genre as well as some mysteries. Estleman works simultaneously on the novels of different series as well as the stand-alone novels. He has been able to develop a huge fan base all over the United States as well as in Europe.
Estleman has acquired a loyal and cult readership in both the continents and has received fan letters from famous personalities such as John D. MacDonald and Steve Forbes. The novels written by him have been translated into more than 23 foreign languages and have been distributed all over the world. He has been referred to as the most acclaimed author in this generation because of his specialization in writing novels based on both the American West and the criminal history. He has great command over his writing skills and gives interesting characterizations to the characters of the novels. Estleman’s success can be seen from the fact that he has been nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America and the National Book Award. Apart from the nominations he has also received a number of writing awards, which include 20 national awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 5 Spurs Awards, the lifetime achievement Owen Wister Award, 2 American Mystery Award and a Barry Award from the various writing associations of America.
Apart from these, Estleman also received the literature award from the Michigan Foundation of Arts in the year 1987. This was followed by several other prestigious awards in the succeeding years. Estleman was made the Guest of Honor in the year 1993 at a mystery convention in Texas. Estleman has also been the Guest of Honor of various other associations of America over the entire period of his writing career. Other than writing mystery novels, Loren D. Estleman has also served as the judge for many honors of literature. He has also written many book reviews as a column writer in many newspapers. Some of them include The Washington Post and The New York Times. In the year 1988, Estleman attended the filming of a television show named Lonesome Dove. Estleman says that he has worked very hard throughout his career to reach the current high point of his career. He began his writing stint in the upstairs of his Michigan farmhouse, where he grew up. He used to enjoy watching the western series Gunsmoke and Maverick by curling in his sofa and having a mug of hot chocolate in his hand.
Estleman sent his first short story for publication at the age of fifteen years. However, he faced many rejections in the initial days of his writing career. He says that he had received around 160 rejections in the first 8 years of his career. He used to commute to the University of Eastern Michigan during his college days in order to cut the travel expenses as his father was disabled and his mother used to work in order to provide livelihood to the family. Estleman does not consider himself as a fast writer, but a consistent one. He says that he spends around 6 hours a day on an average on his typewriter for writing his novels. Estleman used to make use of cheap typing paper as he used to make a lot of changes in his writings and used to contribute to the wastebasket a lot. Author Estleman received a lot inspiration from the works of the noteworthy authors of his time, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Jack London, and Raymond Chandler. These were also his favorite writers and he wanted to become a successful writer like one of these. Other than being a writer, Estleman was also a speaker and a veteran journalist for the police-beat news. He graduated from the University of Eastern Michigan in the year 1974 and earned his Bachelor degree in Journalism and English Literature. He was awarded with an honorary doctorate by the EMU in the year 2002. Estleman left all the odd jobs that he used to do in order to become a full time writer in the year 1980.
One of the novel series written by Loren D. Estleman is the Amos Walker series, which consists of a total of 25 novels published between the years 1980 and 2015. The series features Amos Walker as the main protagonist, who works as a private investigator in Detroit. The first novel of the series was called ‘Motor City Blue’ and was published by the Fawcett Books in the year 1980. The plot of the novel is set in Michigan. In the opening sequence of the series, Amos Walker gets hired by a man named Ben Morningstar, who is an ex-gangster for finding his missing ward named Marla. The only clue that Amos Walker has, is the black and white glossy that is found in a only a few bookstores. During the investigation of the missing case of Marla, Amos also witnesses the kidnapping of one of his old Vietnam friends and solves the murder case of a young leader of black labors.
The second novel of the Amos Walker series was published by the Houghton Mifflin publishing house in the year 1981. The novel was titled ‘Angel Eyes’ and continued to feature the main character named Amos Walker as a private investigator. The plot of the second novel opens with the introduction of a character named Ann Maringer, a dancer by profession whose life seems to be in danger. Her last hope is private investigator Amos Walker, who is hot-tempered with a caustic wit and extraordinary talent of solving crimes. Amos tends to stick to his clients like a nuclear fallout, as believed by his former clients.
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