Loren D. Estleman

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  • Bibliography:
    113 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1955
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Amos Walker Mystery

1 - Motor City Blue (1980)
2 - Angel Eyes (Sep-1981)
3 - The Midnight Man (Jun-1982)
4 - The Glass Highway (Sep-1983)
5 - Sugartown (Jun-1984)
6 - Every Brilliant Eye (Feb-1986)
6.5 - I'm In The Book (Oct-1992)
7 - Lady Yesterday (Apr-1987)
7.5 - Bodyguards Shoot Second (Nov-1996)
8 - Downriver (Jan-1988)
9 - General Murders (Aug-1989)
10 - Silent Thunder (Mar-1989)
11 - Sweet Women Lie (Apr-1990)
12 - Never Street (Mar-1997)
13 - The Witchfinder (May-1998)
14 - The Hours of the Virgin (Aug-1999)
15 - A Smile on the Face of the Tiger (Aug-2000)
16 - Sinister Heights (Feb-2002)
17 - Poison Blonde (Apr-2003)
18 - Retro (May-2004)
19 - Nicotine Kiss (Mar-2006)
20 - American Detective (Apr-2007)
21 - The Left-handed Dollar (Dec-2010)
22 - Infernal Angels (Jul-2011)
23 - Burning Midnight (Jun-2012)
24 - Don't Look for Me (Mar-2014)
25 - You Know Who Killed Me (Dec-2014)
26 - The Sundown Speech (Nov-2015)
27 - The Lioness Is the Hunter (Mar-2017)
28 - Black and White Ball (Mar-2018)
29 - When Old Midnight Comes Along (Dec-2019)
30 - Cutthroat Dogs (Jan-2022)
31 - Monkey in the Middle (Jun-2022)
32 - City Walls (Apr-2023)
33 - Smoke on the Water (Feb-2025)

Detroit

1 - Whiskey River (Sep-1990)
2 - Motown (Aug-1991)
3 - King of the Corner (May-1992)
4 - Edsel (Jul-1995)
5 - Stress (Mar-1996)
6 - Jitterbug (Oct-1998)
7 - Thunder City (Nov-1999)

Judge Parker

The Branch and the Scaffold (May-2009)

Page Murdock

Stamping Ground (Feb-1980)
The Stranglers (Dec-1984)
City of Widows (Apr-1994)
White Desert (Jul-2000)
Port Hazard (Jan-2004)
The Book of Murdock (Apr-2010)
Wild Justice (Nov-2018)

A Peter Macklin Thriller

1 - Kill Zone (Sep-1984)
2 - Any Man's Death (Sep-1986)
3 - Something Borrowed, Something Black (Apr-2002)
4 - Little Black Dress (Apr-2005)

Sherlock Holmes

1 - Sherlock Holmes versus Dracula (1978)
2 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1978)

A Valentino Mystery

1 - Frames (Jul-2008)
2 - Alone (Dec-2009)
3 - Alive! (Apr-2013)
4 - Shoot (Feb-2016)
5 - Brazen (Dec-2016)
6 - Indigo (Aug-2020)
7 - Vamp (Nov-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

9 - Book Club (Mar-2013)

Book List in Order: 113 titles

  • The Wister Trace

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Sherlock Holmes - 2

    Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on ...

  • Sherlock Holmes versus Dracula

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Sherlock Holmes - 1

    HOLMES AMONG THE UNDEAD... A mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor. Its cargo, fifty boxes of earth; its only living passenger, a black dog. The captain's lifeless body is lashed to the wheel--completely drained of blood. Soon, a r...

  • The High Rocks

    U.S. Deputy Page Murdock rides into the Bitteroot Mountains of Montana in the dead of winter to bring in Bear Anderson, known as "Mountain That Walks" to the local Indians. Standing seven feet tall, the legendary trapper is a tower of muscle who has ...

  • Motor City Blue

    • / Private Investigator
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    An Amos Walker Mystery - 1

    "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 bu...

  • Stamping Ground

    Page Murdock

    In Loren D. Estleman's 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 sud...

  • 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...

  • Angel Eyes

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 2

    "I'm going to disappear, Mr. Walker. Very suddenly and very soon." Ann Maringer is a go-go dancer with a problem: her life is in danger, and she is certain that her end is coming soon. Her only hope is Amos Walker -- a hot-tempered, Detroit based pr...

  • The Midnight Man

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 3

    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 bount...



  • The Glass Highway

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 4

    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 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given abi...

  • Sugartown

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 5

    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...

  • Kill Zone

    A Peter Macklin Thriller - 1

    A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake Erie   Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, ...

  • The Stranglers

    Page Murdock

    Between your last prayer and the snap of the rope there's no time for mercy... The first victim was cut down from a limb outside Fort Benton. The second, bound and strung up in Bear's Paw. Now, Deputy Page Murdock has discovered two more men swing...

  • Roses Are Dead

    Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller   For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband’s safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn’t possibly have ...

  • Gun Man

    After killing for the first time in his life, Eugene must run for his life. Calling himself John Miller, he joins the legendary Missouri militia. As the casualties mount, stories of his fearsome exploits spread throughout the West, and his gun-slingi...

  • Every Brilliant Eye

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 6

    While trying to help an old friend out of trouble, Detroit PI Amos Walker finds some trouble of his own.

    Barry Stackpole was tough once. Amos Walker met him in a Cambodian shell crater when Walker was serving his country and Stackpole was o...

  • Any Man's Death

    A Peter Macklin Thriller - 2

    Former Mob hitman Peter Macklin is back in a third adventure, in which Macklin must protect a controversial Detroit preacher with a contract on his head--and hope the hitman isn't his own teenaged son. Estleman holds a Western Writers of America Aces...

  • Lady Yesterday

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 7

    Tracking down a runaway wife is run of the mill. That's yesterday's blues. But finding the trombonist father of black, beautiful, reformed hooker Iris threatens to blow up into the case of a lifetime.

    The trail Amos Walker follows through Detroit...

  • Bloody Season

    From the three-time Golden Spur Award winner--the classic novel about Tombstone, Arizona...* The gunfight at O.K. Corral is the ultimate Western adventure--and Estleman's novel is the definitive accountPistol-hot...rawhide tough.--Kirkus ReviewsGritt...



  • Downriver

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 8

    It's a new world for black ex-con Richard DeVries, back on the streets after a long, battering stretch in Marquette prison. Twenty years before, during the infamous Detroit race riots, DeVries had been set up by his accomplices on an armored car robb...

  • The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman

  • Silent Thunder

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 10

    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 unconsc...

  • General Murders

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 9

    "With his usual knife-sharp prose in cutting form, Loren D. Estleman proves that he can carve a short story as cleanly as the full-length Amos Walker detective novels.Detroit''s favorite private investigator, Amos Walker, barrels through this collect...

  • Peeper

    MEET RALPH POTEET: PEEPER Being a hard-boiled private eye in a crummy neighborhood of Detroit ain't easy. You gotta scrabble for every cent, whether it's pictures of the county supervisor's wife with a grocery store clerk, or a predawn call from a...

  • Sweet Women Lie

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 11

    Entangled in a scandal involving a Hollywood woman and a quarter of a million dollars, Amos Walker experiences a bittersweet reunion with his ex-wife and becomes trapped in a game of lies and murder. Reprint. NYT....

  • Whiskey River

    Detroit - 1

    In 1931 Detroit, the era of Prohibition, the booming auto industry, and the Mob, newspaperman Connie Minor chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Jack Dance, a story that makes him a witness of and key player in a dangerous game...

  • Sudden Country

    13-year-old David Grayle's mother owns a boardinghouse. A strange visitor, Jotham Flynn, fresh out of jail, has come to tell his story to Judge Blod, a writer of dime novels and a boarder at the Grayle home. As it turns out, Flynn has a treasure map ...

  • Motown

    Detroit - 2

    Working undercover in order to stop a consumer advocacy agency from putting Detroit auto companies out of business, ex-cop and car lover Rick Amery becomes involved in the conflagration of a black gang war. Reprint....

  • King of the Corner

    Detroit - 3

    Recently released from prison, former major league baseball player Doc Miller takes a job as driver and muscle man for a tough bail bondsman and finds himself in a world of guns, greed, and murder. Reprint....



  • I'm In The Book

    in Women on the Edge
    An Amos Walker Mystery - 6.5

    Women become the protagonists in an anthology of fourteen mystery stories by Sara Paretsky, Barbara Michaels, Nancy Pickard, Loren D. Estleman, John D. MacDonald, and Bill Pronzini, among others. Reprint....

  • City of Widows

    Page Murdock

    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 e...

  • Red Highway

    During the Great Depression, a ruthless killer breaks out of prison to reclaim his status as Public Enemy Number One in this chilling, action-packed novel   Before Dillinger, before Bonnie and Clyde, there was Virgil Ballard, the most ruthless k...

  • Edsel

    Detroit - 4

    It's Detroit, 1950s: the age of Sputnik, Joe McCarthy, and fast money. Connie Minor is a washed-up newspaper man who is about to get a second shot. His ticket: sell America Henry Ford's new dream car, the Edsel. Unfortunately for Connie, everybody in...

  • Stress

    Detroit - 5

    A young black cop goes head-to-head with Detroit’s elite undercover squad when one of its officers is accused of a racially fraught murderFor Paul Kubicek and the city of Detroit, 1972 ends in a haze of blood. A police officer in need of extra ...

  • Bodyguards Shoot Second

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries
    An Amos Walker Mystery - 7.5

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • 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 w...

  • Never Street

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 12

    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 mur...

  • Murdock's Law

    Two Page Murdock Novels from the Spur-Award Winning author Loren D. EstlemanMurdock's LawSpecial U.S. Deputy Page Murdock rides into Breen, Montana, on the trail of a menacing and elusive outlaw. Before he can scout the saloons for his man, he is mad...

  • Journey of the Dead

    In Loren D. Estleman's Journey of the Dead, when Pat Garrett killed his poker buddy, Billy the Kid, he had no idea what a terrible emotional price he would pay. Haunted by memories of Billy, Garrett wanders the New Mexico desert in a fruitless pursui...



  • The Witchfinder

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 13

    Jay Bell Furlong had everything. Now he's dying, and wants one thing back: the moment he turned against the woman he loved--based on a faked photograph and a heartbreaking lie. Furlong has hired Walker to find out who destroyed his love affair and sh...

  • Jitterbug

    Detroit - 6

    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 t...

  • The Hider

    Seeking adventure in the Old West, eighteen-year-old Jeff Curry joins an elderly hider on the trail of the last of the buffalo, a quest that becomes a manhunt when the two men come to the aid of an Indian framed for murder. Original....

  • Legend

    An exciting new novel of the Old West told collectively by seven of the genre's most acclaimed authors--Loren D. Estleman, Elmer Kelton, Judy Alter, James Reasoner, Jane Candia Coleman, Ed Gorman, and Robert J. Randisi....

  • The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

    Lights...Camera...Danger! Los Angeles, 1913: Director Buck Bensinger is desperately trying to hold together the fledgling Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association when aspiring writer Dmitri Pulski walks out of the snowy Sierra Nevadas and onto t...

  • This Old Bill

    His eyes had seen the glory—of the wild, wild, West...The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer o...

  • The Hours of the Virgin

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 14

    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 transact...

  • Thunder City

    Detroit - 7

    A novel of Detroit Harlan Crownover, scion of a great family of carriage makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run by Henry Ford. Desperate for funds, Harlan turns to Big Jim Dolan, the Midwest's most powerful political boss, and ...

  • The Wolfer

    Known and feared throughout the West, wolfer Asa North is as ferocious and ruthless as the wolves he hunts. But he may have finally met his match in Black Jack, the cunning, blood-thirsty beast whose pack has ravaged innumerable herds of sheep and ca...

  • White Desert

    Page Murdock

    Two Westerns in the Page Murdock series from Spur Award-Winning Author Loren D. Estleman!White DesertU.S. Marshal Page Murdock is a tough cynic -- and the last man you’d want on your tail. Though Montana-based, Murdock pursues a vicious gang into a...



  • A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 15

    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....

  • 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 lat...

  • Sinister Heights

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 16

    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 Mode...

  • Something Borrowed, Something Black

    A Peter Macklin Thriller - 3

    Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller   Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slam...

  • Black Powder, White Smoke

    For freed slave Honey Boutrille, "justice" is a word that no longer bears any weight. After he saves the life of a prostitute by shooting her white, would-be killer, the price on Honey's head sends him on the run. As he narrowly escapes scrape afte...

  • Poison Blonde

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 17

    WHO IS GILIA CRISTOBAL? She's simply one of the hottest of hot Latina singers. But nothing in her life is simple. In her native land she was involved with people the government didn't like, and she barely escaped with her life to start fresh in th...

  • Port Hazard

    Page Murdock

    Hired killers, sent one by one to Montana Territory after Page Murdock. Murdock doesn't know why someone wants him out of the way, but he knows where they're coming from. Thus begins Murdock's descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and danger...

  • Retro

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 18

    Loren D. Estleman is the quintessential noir detective writer, and Amos Walker is his quintessential noir detective. The hardboiled Amos Walker series continues with Retro.Walker has made a lot of friends--and a few enemies--in his years as a detecti...

  • Little Black Dress

    A Peter Macklin Thriller - 4

    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-Tribun...

  • The Undertaker's Wife

    From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes 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 o...

  • Nicotine Kiss

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 19

    In this installment of Loren Estleman's signature PI series, Amos Walker, the quintessential hard-boiled detective, proves that he's mortal after all. Jeff Starzek, an old friend who smuggles cigarettes for a living, saves Walker's life, getting him ...

  • 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--voilĂ --applause on the rugged frontier.Johnny also ...

  • American Detective

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 20

    Hardboiled detective Amos Walker returns for his nineteenth outing in his most challenging case yet. Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Walker to break off his daughters engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man Fuller believes is after her tw...

  • 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...

  • Frames

    A Valentino Mystery - 1

    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 basement, h...

  • The Branch and the Scaffold

    Judge Parker

    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 hang...

  • Alone

    A Valentino Mystery - 2

    The second wacky comedic murder romp for Hollywood film detective Valentino Valentino 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 lif...

  • The Book of Murdock

    Page 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 ...

  • Roy & Lillie

    Roy 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 th...

  • Amos Walker

    This anthology collects all thirty-two previously published Amos Walker stories, a previously unpublished story written for the collection, and an introduction by Mr. Estleman....

  • The Left-handed Dollar

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 21

    Joseph Michael Ballista -- "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies -- knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or "a lefthanded dollar." Thats why hes in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore -- "Lefty Lucy" to just about every ...

  • Valentino: Film Detective

    Valentino has a perfect job for a film buff: he is a film detective who locates lost movies so that they can be preserved for future generations. And often he has to become an amateur sleuth as well. To locate a fragment of a film long considered to ...

  • Infernal Angels

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 22

    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 ph...

  • The Bandit & Others: The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman

    Few writers recount tales of the old West as deftly as Pulitzer Prize-nominee and five-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Loren D. Estleman. Now, some of Estleman's finest work comes to life in this collection of vivid and rich...

  • Evil Grows & Other Thrilling Tales

    Loren D. Estleman has been writing and publishing books and novels since 1976. His fiction includes westerns, mysteries, thrillers, and historical thrillers. Along the way, he's written a number of crime stories. Stories about the darker side of li...

  • Burning Midnight

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 23

    In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives readers a hot new Amos Walker mystery. Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks...

  • Mr. St. John

    Race Buckner and his accomplices are robbing banks and trains all over the West. Their ingenious brand of banditry has made them virtually unstoppable-until a legendary lawman is put on their trail. Mister St. John. Irons St. John thought he had put...

  • The Perils of Sherlock Holmes

    "An excellent collection of short stories and essays." --New York Review of Books "An entertaining and diverting read." --BookPleasures.com "Estleman's style as Watson is better than many." --BestofSherlock.com "Readers are transported back to anothe...

  • Sherlock vs. Dracula

    After a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers -- only the dead captain, drained of blood -- a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one ma...

  • Book Club

    Bibliomysteries - 9

    Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors. When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime. Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store's eerie corridors are the province of Avery S...

  • Alive!

    A Valentino Mystery - 3

    Bela Lugosi’s Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jo...

  • The Confessions of Al Capone

    Multiple award-winner Loren D. Estleman has produced a major biographical novel on the infamous Mobster known as Scarface, rigorously researched and deftly nuanced to offer an intimate portrait of the gangster whose terrible crimes and larger-than-li...

  • Sons of Moriarty and Other Mysteries

    A follow-up collection to well-received The Perils of Sherlock Holmes!Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman has curated a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from some of the finest authors in Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes. ...

  • Don't Look for Me

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 24

    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...

  • Ragtime Cowboys

    In prohibition-era Southern California, real life detectives Charles D. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician -- Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an ...

  • The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes

    A collection of classic reprints and four original stories featuring Sherlock HolmesIn bringing to a close the adventures of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I am perforce reminded that he never, save on the occasion which, as you will now hear, brought hi...

  • The Flesh Pedlars and Other Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A collection of classic reprints and four original stories featuring Sherlock HolmesIn bringing to a close the adventures of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I am perforce reminded that he never, save on the occasion which, as you will now hear, brought hi...

  • Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes

    From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman, a spellbinding collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, authorized by the Estate of Arthur Conan Doyle -- an essential follow-up to The Perils of Sherlock Holmes, praised as “an excellent collection of sho...

  • You Know Who Killed Me

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 25

    Amos Walker is at low ebb. Just released from a rehab clinic, the Detroit private detective has to marshal his energies to help solve a murder in Iroquois Heights, his least favorite town. The area is flooded with billboards rented by the widow of...

  • Detroit Is Our Beat

    The place: Detroit. The time: World War II.While most of the police department is fighting overseas, the four men of the Racket Squad struggle to keep a lid on a powderkeg stuffed with draft-dodging troublemakers, Black Market gangsters, enemy sabote...

  • The Long High Noon

    Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vai...

  • The Sundown Speech

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 26

    Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It's one of Walker's easiest jobs to date. In just a few short hours, Walker locates M...

  • Shoot

    A Valentino Mystery - 4

    Valentino, a mild-manner film archivist at UCLA and sometime film detective, is at the closing party for the Red Montana and Dixie Day museum when he is approached by no less than his hero and man-of-the-hour Red Montana, western film and television ...

  • Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places

    As featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal "Loren Estleman is my hero." --Harlan CobenDesperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form.  Previously published in a host...

  • Cape Hell

    In this thrilling new western novel by Spur Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman, U. S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by Federal Judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Confederate Captain Oscar Childress i...

  • Brazen

    A Valentino Mystery - 5

    A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn’t take friend and former actress B...

  • The Lioness Is the Hunter

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 27

    Detroit entrepreneur Carl Fannon hires Walker to trace Emil Haas, his partner, whose sudden disappearance has jeopardized their firm’s plans to purchase the historic Sentinel Building. Almost immediately, the missing man shows up and asks the detec...

  • Nearly Nero

    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 Wolfeâ€"inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era.From ...

  • The Ballad of Black Bart

    Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California’s Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often f...

  • The Branch and the Scaffold and Billy Gashade

    THE BRANCH AND THE SCAFFOLD When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Never flinching from his duty, Parker and his marshals, dubbed "Parker's Men," ran up against some of the most color...

  • Black and White Ball

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 28

    Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in BLACK AND WHITE BALL! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Lau...

  • Wild Justice

    Page Murdock

    A riveting western novel starring beloved character Page Murdock from Spur Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman! In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in the territory of Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, le...

  • Contention and Other Frontier Stories

    For twenty-four years, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Contention and Other Frontier St...

  • Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories

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    For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres.



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  • When Old Midnight Comes Along

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 29

    Amos Walker is hired by one Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances shortly more than six years ago, is dead, so he can remarry without havin...

  • Indigo

    A Valentino Mystery - 6

    Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university’s movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never...

  • The Eagle and the Viper

    It's a time of improvised explosive devices, terrorist training camps, international assassins, and war on civilians. It's Christmas Eve, 1800. This much is history: On Christmas Eve, 1800, an "infernal machine" exploded in one of ...

  • Cutthroat Dogs

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 30

    “Someone is dead who shouldn’t be, and the wrong man is in prison.” Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted ...

  • Monkey in the Middle

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 31

    From the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes Loren D. Estleman's next enthralling Amos Walker mystery, Monkey in the Middle“Loren D. Estleman is my hero.” ...

  • Paperback Jack

    Paperback Jack is a brand new historical thriller from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman: lurid paperback covers promised sex and danger, but what went on behind the scenes was nearly as spicy as the adventures between the covers.1946. Fresh from the Wa...

  • City Walls

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 32

    City Walls, the next Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. “Loren D. Estleman is my hero.” -- Harlan CobenThe search for a fugitive embezzler leads Amos Walker to Cleveland, where he is hired by Emmett Yale, a leading figure in the electric car ...

  • Vamp

    A Valentino Mystery - 7

    Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award.Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The...

  • Iron Star

    Set against the sprawling landscape of the Wild West, this riveting adventure by Spur Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman follows a man on a journey to set his legacy, and the men dedicated to bringing his story to life.From his youth as a revolut...

  • Smoke on the Water

    An Amos Walker Mystery - 33

    From the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes Loren D. Estleman's next enthralling Amos Walker mystery, Smoke on the Water.As the smoke from Canadian wildfires ...

Award-Winning Books by Loren D. Estleman

Aces and Eights
1981 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel
Journey of the Dead
1999 SPUR Award -- Western Novel
Sugartown
1984 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
The Undertaker's Wife
2006 SPUR Award -- Western Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Loren D. Estleman has published 113 books.

The next book by Loren D. Estleman, Smoke on the Water, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Loren D. Estleman, The Wister Trace, was published in February 1955.

Yes. Loren D. Estleman has 7 series.
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