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Motor City Blue (1980)

di Loren D. Estleman

Serie: Amos Walker (1)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster's missing adopted daughter Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He's a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Walker's latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who's been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker's help. But the trail has gone cold�the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard's crime fiction will find Estleman's lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author's personal collection. .… (altro)

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A nice old fashioned mystery. I have always wanted to read this series and glad I have finally started it. It was fun being transported back a few decades. I also loved the setting of Detroit. I haven't read any books I can remember set there. (

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cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |

Written in the style of the hard-boiled detectives, Estleman tells a satisfactory tale. I'm not sure if I will read many more though. The style and attitudes are a bit dated and not always pleasant to read. The mystery itself was not that much of a challenge. (

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MrsLee | Jun 20, 2022 |

Motor City Blue is the first of Loren Estleman's Amos Walker mysteries. Amos Walker is a private detective in Detroit. I didn't think I was going to like this book for the first 50 or so pages but then I decided I did like it. Liked it enough to probably read the next one. Full of violence, drugs and drinking and seedy characters. In Motor City Blue Walker is hired to find a missing woman and leads to a bunch of other events. The young woman left a finishing school and ended up in a brothel. (

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MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |

Amos Walker is private detective, hired by a retired Detroit mobster to find his missing ward, Marla Bernstein. She disappeared from her finishing school with a unknown man and there is s photo showing that she may be involved in prostitution and/or adult films. Walker has been trying to see if an insurer was being scammed with a faked injury, when he witnesses his CO from Vietnam grabbed by two thugs, and ending up dead in a car trunk. The CO was working for military intelligence looking into the killing of a rising labor organizer. The two stories become integrated in more ways than one as Amos pulls at the few threads to find the truth. (

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skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |

For the most part it's a bad imitation of Hammett or Chandler. (

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ptdilloway | Nov 21, 2013 |

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The Amos Walker mysteries volume one : motor city blue, angel eyes, and the midnight man di Loren D. Estleman

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Motor City Blue

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1980

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Detroit, Michigan, USA

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In memoriam
JOHN BANICH
for kindnesses unforgotten

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster's missing adopted daughter
Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He's a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things.

Walker's latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who's been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker's help. But the trail has gone cold�the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot.

Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution.

Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard's crime fiction will find Estleman's lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

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