Loren D. Estleman Books in Order

Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He continues to write with a manual typewriter, a testament to his dedication to traditional craftsmanship. Estleman is renowned for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker, a character he has brought to life in a series of gripping mysteries. His other notable series include Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. Estleman's non-series works include Bloody Season, a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. His writing has captivated readers across multiple series, including the Amos Walker Mystery, Valentino Mystery, Detroit Crime Mystery, Peter Macklin Mystery, and Page Murdock Mystery.

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Loren D. Estleman

  • #1
    Motor City Blue(1980)
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  • #2
    Angel Eyes(1981)
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  • #3
    The Midnight Man(1982)
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  • #4
    The Glass Highway(1983)
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  • #5
    Sugartown(1984)
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  • #6
    Every Brilliant Eye(1986)
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  • #7
    Lady Yesterday(1987)
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  • #8
    Downriver(1988)
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  • #9
    Silent Thunder(1989)
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  • #10
    Sweet Women Lie(1990)
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  • #11
    Never Street(1997)
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  • #12
    The Witchfinder(1998)
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  • #13
    The Hours of the Virgin(1999)
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  • #14
    A Smile on the Face of the Tiger(2000)
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  • #15
    Sinister Heights(2002)
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  • #16
    Poison Blonde(2003)
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  • #17
    Retro(2004)
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  • #18
    Nicotine Kiss(2005)
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  • #19
    American Detective(2007)
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  • #20
    The Left-Handed Dollar(2010)
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  • #21
    Infernal Angels(2011)
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  • #22
    Burning Midnight(2012)
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  • #23
    Don't Look for Me(2014)
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  • #24
    You Know Who Killed Me(2014)
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  • #25
    The Sundown Speech(2015)
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  • #26
    The Lioness Is the Hunter(2017)
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  • #27
    Black and White Ball(2018)
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  • #28
    When Old Midnight Comes Along(2020)
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  • #29
    Cut-Throat Dogs(2021)
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  • #30
    Monkey in the Middle(2022)
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  • #31
    City Walls(2023)
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  • #32
    Smoke on the Water(2025)
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  • #33
    General Murders(1988)
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  • #34
    Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection(2010)
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  • #1
    The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)(2012)
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  • #2
    Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)(2012)
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  • #3
    The Book Thing (By: Laura Lippman)(2012)
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  • #4
    The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)(2012)
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  • #5
    An Acceptable Sacrifice (By: Jeffery Deaver)(2012)
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  • #6
    Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)(2012)
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  • #7
    The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)(2013)
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  • #8
    Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)(2013)
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  • #9
    The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)(2013)
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  • #10
    The Book of Ghosts (By: Reed Farrel Coleman)(2013)
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  • #11
    The Compendium of Srem (By: F. Paul Wilson)(2014)
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  • #12
    What's in a Name? (By: Thomas H. Cook)(2014)
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  • #13
    Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)(2014)
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  • #14
    The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)(2014)
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  • #15
    The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)(2014)
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  • #16
    Book Club(2014)
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  • #17
    The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)(2014)
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  • #18
    It's in the Book (By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)(2014)
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  • #19
    The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)(2014)
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  • #20
    The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)(2015)
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  • #21
    The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)(2015)
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  • #22
    Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)(2015)
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  • #23
    Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)(2015)
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  • #24
    Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)(2015)
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  • #25
    From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)(2015)
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  • #26
    The Travelling Companion (By: Ian Rankin)(2016)
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  • #27
    Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)(2016)
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  • #28
    Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)(2016)
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  • #29
    Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)(2016)
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  • #30
    The Haze (By: James W. Hall)(2016)
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  • #31
    Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)(2017)
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  • #32
    The Pretty Little Box (By: Charles Todd)(2018)
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  • #33
    Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)(2018)
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  • #34
    The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler)(2018)
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  • #35
    The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)(2018)
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  • #36
    The Girl Who Did Say No (By: David Handler)(2020)
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  • #37
    The Traitor (By: Martin Edwards)(2022)
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  • #38
    The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger)(2022)
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  • #39
    The Honeymoon Trap (By: Peter Swanson)(2022)
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  • #1
    Rambo (By: David Morrell)(2022)
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  • #2
    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (By: Robert Crais)(2022)
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  • #3
    Jack Taylor (By: Ken Bruen)(2022)
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  • #4
    Jack Reacher (By: Lee Child)(2022)
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  • #5
    Charlie Parker (By: John Connolly)(2022)
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  • #6
    Hieronymus Bosch (By: Michael Connelly)(2022)
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  • #7
    Lincoln Rhyme (By: Jeffery Deaver)(2022)
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  • #8
    Alex Delaware (By: Jonathan Kellerman)(2022)
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  • #9
    Tess Monaghan (By: Laura Lippman)(2022)
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  • #10
    Charlie Resnick (By: John Harvey)(2022)
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  • #11
    Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By: Faye Kellerman)(2022)
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  • #12
    Inspector Morse (By: Colin Dexter)(2022)
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  • #13
    Dismas Hardy (By: John Lescroart)(2022)
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  • #14
    Bob Lee Swagger (By: Stephen Hunter)(2022)
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  • #15
    Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (By: Douglas Preston)(2022)
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  • #16
    Lou Boldt (By: Ridley Pearson)(2022)
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  • #17
    Spenser (By: Robert B. Parker)(2022)
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  • #18
    Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (By: Anne Perry)(2022)
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  • #19
    John Rebus (By: Ian Rankin)(2022)
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  • #20
    Mallory (By: Carol O'Connell)(2022)
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  • #21
    Jane Whitefield (By: Thomas Perry)(2022)
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  • #22
    Ian Rutledge (By: Charles Todd)(2022)
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  • #23
    Amos Walker(2022)
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  • #24
    Precious Ramotswe (By: Alexander McCall Smith)(2022)
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  • #25
    Maisie Dobbs (By: Jacqueline Winspear)(2022)
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  • #26
    The Lincoln Lawyer (By: Michael Connelly)(2022)
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  • #27
    Condor (By: James Grady)(2023)
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  • #28
    Ben Kincaid (By: William Bernhardt)(2023)
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  • #29
    Repairman Jack (By: F. Paul Wilson)(2023)
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  • #30
    Joe Pickett (By: C.J. Box)(2024)
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  • #31
    Peter Diamond (By: Peter Lovesey)(2024)
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  • #32
    Nathan Heller (By: Max Allan Collins)(2024)
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  • #1
    The Wister Trace(1987)
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  • #2
    Writing the Popular Novel(2004)
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  • #3
    Amos Walker's Detroit(2007)
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  • #1
    Amos Walker's Detroit(2007)
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  • #2
    Travelin' Man (By: Gary Graff)(2009)
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  • #3
    Techno Rebels (By: Dan Sicko)(2010)
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  • #4
    MC5 Sonically Speaking (By: Brett Callwood)(2010)
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  • #5
    Reimagining Detroit (By: John Gallagher)(2010)
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  • #6
    The Stooges Head On (By: Alice Cooper,Brett Callwood)(2011)
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  • #7
    Revolution Detroit (By: John Gallagher)(2013)
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  • #8
    Images from the Arsenal of Democracy (By: Charles K. Hyde)(2014)
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  • #9
    The Art of Memory (By: Thomas R. Dilley)(2014)
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  • #10
    Great Lakes Island Escapes (By: Maureen Dunphy)(2016)
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  • #11
    The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (By: Laurie Lanzen Harris,Paul Ganson)(2016)
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  • #12
    Saving Arcadia (By: Heather Shumaker,Jordan Wannemacher)(2017)
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  • #13
    Greetings from Detroit (By: Dan Austin)(2017)
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  • #14
    Brewed in Michigan (By: William Rapai)(2017)
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  • #15
    Building the Modern World (By: Michael H. Hodges)(2018)
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  • #16
    The Faygo Book (By: Joe Grimm)(2018)
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  • #17
    The Queen Next Door (By: Linda Solomon)(2019)
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  • #18
    Northern Harvest (By: Emita Brady Hill)(2020)
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  • #19
    Mean Streets(1986)
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  • #20
    Matter of Crime(1987)
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  • #21
    The Black Moon(1989)
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  • #22
    The New Frontier(1989)
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  • #23
    City Sleuths and Tough Guys(1989)
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  • #24
    100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory(1991)
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  • #25
    Invitation to Murder(1991)
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  • #26
    Deadly Allies(1992)
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  • #27
    Dark Crimes 2(1993)
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  • #28
    Deadly Allies II(1994)
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  • #29
    New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories(1994)
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  • #30
    First Cases, Volume 1(1996)
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  • #31
    How the West Was Read, Volume 2(1996)
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  • #32
    The Night Awakens(1998)
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  • #33
    The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1999)
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  • #34
    The Best of the American West II(1999)
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  • #35
    The Best American Mystery Stories 1999(1999)
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  • #36
    American West(2000)
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  • #37
    The Shamus Game(2000)
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  • #38
    The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1(2000)
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  • #39
    The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years(2001)
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  • #40
    A Century of Great Western Stories(2001)
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  • #41
    Murder, My Dear Watson(2002)
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  • #42
    A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime(2003)
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  • #43
    Lost Trails(2007)
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  • #44
    At the Scene of the Crime(2008)
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  • #45
    Sherlock Holmes in America(2009)
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  • #46
    Ghost Towns(2010)
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  • #47
    The Best American Mystery Stories 2011(2011)
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  • #48
    Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe(2011)
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  • #49
    In Pursuit of Spenser(2012)
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  • #50
    Detroit Is Our Beat(2015)
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  • #51
    Bob Seger's House and Other Stories(2016)
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  • #52
    Silent Night, Deadly Night(2016)
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  • #53
    The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife(2017)
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  • #54
    Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors(2018)
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  • #55
    The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe(2020)
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  • #56
    Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories(2020)
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  • #1
    Kill Zone(1984)
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  • #2
    Roses are Dead(1985)
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  • #3
    Any Man's Death(1986)
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  • #4
    Something Borrowed, Something Black(2002)
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  • #5
    Little Black Dress(2004)
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  • #1
    Red Highway / The Oklahoma Punk(1976)
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  • #2
    The Hider(1980)
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  • #3
    Aces and Eights(1981)
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  • #4
    The Wolfer(1983)
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  • #5
    Mister St. John(1983)
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  • #6
    This Old Bill(1984)
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  • #7
    Gun Man(1985)
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  • #8
    Bloody Season(1987)
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  • #9
    Peeper(1989)
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  • #10
    Sudden Country(1991)
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  • #11
    Billy Gashade(1997)
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  • #12
    Journey of the Dead(1998)
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  • #13
    The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association(1999)
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  • #14
    The Master Executioner(2001)
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  • #15
    Black Powder, White Smoke(2002)
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  • #16
    The Undertaker's Wife(2005)
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  • #17
    The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion(2006)
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  • #18
    Gas City(2008)
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  • #19
    The Branch and the Scaffold(2009)
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  • #20
    Roy & Lillie: A Love Story(2010)
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  • #21
    The Confessions of Al Capone(2013)
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  • #22
    Ragtime Cowboys(2014)
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  • #23
    The Long High Noon(2015)
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  • #24
    Nearly Nero(2017)
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  • #25
    The Ballad of Black Bart(2017)
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  • #26
    The Eagle and the Viper(2021)
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  • #27
    Dead Soldier(1982)
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  • #28
    Greektown(1983)
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  • #29
    Eight Mile and Dequindre(1985)
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  • #30
    I’m in the Book(1986)
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  • #31
    Bodyguards Shoot Second(1987)
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  • #32
    The Man Who Loved Noir(1991)
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  • #33
    Cigarette Stop(1991)
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  • #34
    Safe House(1992)
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  • #35
    The Crooked Way(1993)
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  • #36
    Slipstream(1994)
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  • #37
    The Alchemist(1999)
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  • #38
    Lady on Ice(2003)
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  • #39
    Square One(2006)
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  • #40
    Trust Me(2007)
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  • #41
    Kill the Cat(2007)
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  • #42
    The Bandit(2012)
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  • #43
    Sob Sister(2015)
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  • #44
    The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman(1989)
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  • #45
    Valentino: Film Detective(2011)
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  • #46
    The Bandit & Others(2012)
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  • #47
    Evil Grows & Other Thrilling Tales(2012)
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  • #48
    The Perils of Sherlock Holmes(2012)
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  • #49
    Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes(2013)
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  • #50
    The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes(2014)
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  • #51
    Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places(2016)
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  • #52
    Contention and Other Frontier Stories(2019)
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  • #53
    Legend (With: Johnny D. Boggs)(2019)
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  • #1
    The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (By: Philip Jose Farmer)(1974)
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  • #2
    War of the Worlds (By: Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman)(1975)
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  • #3
    The Giant Rat of Sumatra (By: Richard L. Boyer)(1976)
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  • #4
    Sherlock vs Dracula(1978)
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  • #5
    The Stalwart Companions (By: H. Paul Jeffers)(1978)
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  • #6
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes(1979)
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  • #7
    The Ectoplasmic Man (By: Daniel Stashower)(1985)
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  • #8
    The Whitechapel Horrors (By: Edward B. Hanna)(1992)
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  • #9
    The Seventh Bullet (By: Daniel D. Victor)(1992)
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  • #10
    Seance for a Vampire (By: Fred Saberhagen)(1994)
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  • #11
    Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac (By: Barrie Roberts)(1994)
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  • #12
    The Angel of the Opera (By: Sam Siciliano)(1994)
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  • #13
    The Titanic Tragedy (By: William Seil)(1996)
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  • #14
    The Star of India (By: Carole Buggé)(1998)
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  • #15
    The Man from Hell (By: Barrie Roberts)(2000)
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  • #16
    The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By: Carole Buggé)(2000)
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  • #17
    Between the Thames and the Tiber (By: Ted Riccardi)(2011)
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  • #18
    The Web Weaver (By: Sam Siciliano)(2012)
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  • #19
    The Grimswell Curse (By: Sam Siciliano)(2013)
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  • #20
    The Devil's Promise (By: David Stuart Davies)(2014)
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  • #21
    The Albino's Treasure (By: Stuart Douglas)(2015)
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  • #22
    The White Worm (By: Sam Siciliano)(2016)
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  • #23
    The Ripper Legacy (By: David Stuart Davies)(2016)
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  • #24
    Murder at Sorrow's Crown (By: Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger)(2016)
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  • #25
    The Counterfeit Detective (By: Stuart Douglas)(2016)
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  • #26
    The Moonstone's Curse (By: Sam Siciliano)(2017)
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  • #27
    Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (By: David Marcum)(2017)
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  • #28
    The Improbable Prisoner (By: Stuart Douglas)(2018)
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  • #29
    The Devil and the Four (By: Sam Siciliano)(2018)
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  • #30
    The Instrument of Death (By: David Stuart Davies)(2019)
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  • #31
    The Martian Menace (By: Eric Brown)(2020)
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  • #32
    The Venerable Tiger (By: Sam Siciliano)(2020)
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  • #33
    The Crusader's Curse (By: Stuart Douglas)(2020)
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  • #34
    Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden (By: Steven Savile)(2021)
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  • #35
    Revenge from the Grave (By: David Stuart Davies)(2022)
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  • #36
    Deathly Relics (By: Sam Siciliano)(2023)
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  • #37
    The Gentleman Burglar (By: Sam Siciliano)(2024)
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About Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He continues to write with a manual typewriter, a testament to his dedication to traditional craftsmanship. Estleman is renowned for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker, a character he has brought to life in a series of gripping mysteries. His other notable series include Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. Estleman's non-series works include Bloody Season, a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. His writing has captivated readers across multiple series, including the Amos Walker Mystery, Valentino Mystery, Detroit Crime Mystery, Peter Macklin Mystery, and Page Murdock Mystery.

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