Loren Estleman, the Edgar Award-winning author of the Amos Walker novels, has been writing hard-boiled fiction for over twenty years. In the 1980s he created another memorable character, Peter Macklin, a guy who had integrity, intelligence, and a keen sense of justice... and was a hired killer, for almost twenty years. But he quit that business, leaving the mob, leaving Detroit, and leaving behind his life as a deadly, dangerous man. He also left his wife, and his son, cutting his ties to all his old connections.It's been more than two years since then, and he's ready to start a new life, with Laurie, a beautiful, passionate woman who he met when she was working for his doctor's clinic as a receptionist. As the book opens, they're on their honeymoon in California, taking in the sights of Los Angeles... until one day there's a message for Macklin. It's his past calling. His old boss, Mr. Major, wants him to do one more job, and he doesn't take no for an answer. And just to make sure Macklin does his job, Major has one of his other people keep Macklin's new bride company. Macklin's off to San Antonio, where he's got to snuff out a bookie. He does it, and covers his tracks, but he's not finished. While Macklin's been doing Major's dirty work, Laurie's trying to shake off Abilene, a lanky, half-charming rustic who seems all right -- until Laurie tries to bolt from his car and he clips her on the mouth. From then on things turn ugly, and we realize that this is no honeymoon for Macklin or Laurie. They're both fighting for their lives, as Macklin tries to escape a tightening web of police, while Laurie just tries to stay alive. Estleman's portrayal of the criminal mind, the subcultureof crime and law-enforcement in this country, with its subtle interplay of legal, moral, and financial forces, has never been sharper. He keeps the reader on the edge of his seat as the deranged Abilene shows his sinister edge more and more clearly as the

Something Borrowed, Something Black (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 4)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Loren D. Estleman

Mystery

St.Martin's Press

A killer who is brutalizing innocents and the elderly in World War II Detroit is tracked by a determined cop, who must not only try to keep the peace and rescue the city from a maniac, but also quiet his own internal demons

Jitterbug (Detroit Crime Series #6)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Forge

Amos Walker (dauntless, incorruptible and underpaid) is hired to find a reputable newsreader's son who, more often than not, is involved in drugs and women. What Walker finds is far more than he bargained for and, in the end, it's Walker's reputation that is at stake.

The Glass Highway (The Amos Walker Series #4)

Humanity+ Press

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.

Sherlock Holmes Vs. Dracula: Or The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count

DOUBLEDAY

The High Rocks

Genre Fiction

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy. EX LIB

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

Private eye, Amos Walker, repays a debt when a police sergeant, Van Sturtevant, is shot trying to help two colleagues who had been ambushed. Sturtevant and his wife hire Walker to find the people responsible, but Walker ends up in a race with a bounty hunter who is prepared to kill. Loren D. Estleman is the author of seven other Walker novels, including "Motor City Blue".

The Midnight Man (The Amos Walker Series)

Houghton/Mifflin

Senior citizen sleuths prove that wisdom and aging go hand in hand in a collection of mystery tales by Agatha Christie, Lilian Jackson Braun, Loren D. Estleman, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Hugh Pentecost, Michael Gilbert, and other notable writers. Original.

Senior Sleuths

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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Agatha, Christie

BERKLEY

A collection of stories inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" includes contributions by Brian Aldiss, Loren D. Estleman, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, S.P. Somtow, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Kurt Vonnegut

The Ultimate Frankenstein: New Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors

Brian Aldiss

kurt-vonnegut

Various, Authors

Dell

Any Man's Death (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 3)

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

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