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DOWNRIVER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "At his best Mr. Estleman is one of the major current practitioners of the tough-guy private-eye novel, and he is at his best here. The dialogue is crackling, the writing is unpadded, and one can smell and even taste the city of Detroit. It was in ''Motor City Blue'' eight years ago that Mr. Estleman first put Amos Walker on the streets of Detroit. He was bigger than life then, and he has remained so - a streetwise, indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys." - Newgate Callendar, NY Times book review, 3/6/88. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
DOWNRIVER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "At his best Mr. Estleman is one of the major current practitioners of the tough-guy private-eye novel, and he is at his best here. The dialogue is crackling, the writing is unpadded, and one can smell and even taste the city of Detroit. It was in ''Motor City Blue'' eight years ago that Mr. Estleman first put Amos Walker on the streets of Detroit. He was bigger than life then, and he has remained so - a streetwise, indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys." - Newgate Callendar, NY Times book review, 3/6/88. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES: by John H. Watson, M.D....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Holmes and Watson investigate.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES: by John H. Watson, M.D....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Holmes and Watson investigate.
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Estleman is today at the peak of his powers, and no one can doubt that his work is transcending the genre in which it is rooted, creating valuable documents and at the same time dignifying the vital and remarkably adaptable vehicle that is the American detective story." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. Review slip laid in.
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Estleman is today at the peak of his powers, and no one can doubt that his work is transcending the genre in which it is rooted, creating valuable documents and at the same time dignifying the vital and remarkably adaptable vehicle that is the American detective story." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.
EVERY BRILLIANT EYE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Mr. Estleman's picture of Detroit is equally gloomy. Yet there is a kind of poetry in his snapshots of the underside of a city with which he so clearly has a love-hate relationship. The writing remains expert. Certainly Mr. Estleman is as good as anyone continuing the Hammett-Chandler tradition." - Newgate Callendar, NY Times book review, 4/20/86. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
GENERAL MURDERS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. A collection of ten Amos Walker, private investigator short stories. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
THE GLASS HIGHWAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Amos Walker.
THE HOURS OF THE VIRGIN.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "Estleman doesn't write pretty travelogues; the pavements of his mean streets are always slippery with bodily fluids. But for all the noir trappings of his style, with its moody nightscapes of lonely streets and empty rooms, this is one genre author who follows the procedures without debasing the language or insulting the intelligence." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 8/22/99. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
KILL ZONE.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Estleman.
LADY YESTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...the various plot-strands are woven together without excess contrivance; the lowdown Detroit backgrounds are, as usual, sketched in with moody conviction; and, flavored with jazz-club nostalgia and world-weary gallantry, this is one of the most satisfying-if least flashy--of the Walker exploits." - Kirkus reviews, 4/21/87. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
LADY YESTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...the various plot-strands are woven together without excess contrivance; the lowdown Detroit backgrounds are, as usual, sketched in with moody conviction; and, flavored with jazz-club nostalgia and world-weary gallantry, this is one of the most satisfying-if least flashy--of the Walker exploits." - Kirkus reviews, 4/21/87. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
MOTOR CITY BLUE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduces Amos Walker, hard boiled private investigator in Detroit. Estleman's work has been a commercial and critical success, he has 18 Shamus award nominations by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA), winning four times. In 2013 the PWA award Estleman it's lifetime achievement award. "Estleman is today at the peak of his powers, and no one can doubt that his work is transcending the genre in which it is rooted, creating valuable documents and at the same time dignifying the vital and remarkably adaptable vehicle that is the American detective story." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NEVER STREET.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Estleman returns to Walker after a seven year hiatus. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NICOTINE KISS.
New York: Forge:, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
NICOTINE KISS.
New York: Forge:, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
POISON BLONDE.
New York: Forge:, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
RETRO.
New York: Forge:, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SILENT THUNDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "...it's all told in prose as rich and soothing as heavy silk by an author who exhales the soulful legacy of Chandler's p.i. through nearly every word he writes here." Kirkus review.
SILENT THUNDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...it's all told in prose as rich and soothing as heavy silk by an author who exhales the soulful legacy of Chandler's p.i. through nearly every word he writes here." Kirkus review. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SINISTER HEIGHTS.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...another bravura performance from a master of the hard-shelled private-eye novel, as well as an author's fond tribute to the forgotten heroes of his genre. Estleman's Detroit gumshoe, a serious drinker-thinker who lives by a tough-guy code that went out of fashion with the Edsel, is sick of hearing that he looks as if he just slouched out of a 1950's paperback novel. But when a publisher hires him to find Eugene Booth, a has-been pulp legend who skipped out on a lucrative contract to reissue his best book, Walker finds himself staring at a streaky mirror image of himself -- if he lives so long." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 8/20/00. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SUGARTOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition make SUGARTOWN the same kind of potent book as its predecessors in the Amos Walker series." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. Publisher's promotional flyer laid in. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.
SUGARTOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition make SUGARTOWN the same kind of potent book as its predecessors in the Amos Walker series." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. Review slip laid in. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.