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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 Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all the instincts, and acquired all the training, necessary to carry out his threat.Told partly by Walker in first-person and partly by Macklin in third, Black and White Ball places the detective squarely between two remorseless killers, with death waiting whether he succeeds or fails.

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 industry, to investigate the murder of his stepson. Yale believes that his stepson's hitman is connected to Clare Strickling, a former employee, and his attempts to silence whispers that he has bought illegal insider-trading information.Walker shadows Strickling to a private airfield as he attempts to flee the country--only to then witness his murder. The twisted web of lies and deceit surrounding both deaths forces Walker to question the motivations of everyone he encounters, from Major Jack Flagg, an elderly barnstormer, Palm Volker, the attractive aviatrix who runs the airfield, Candido, a surly maintenance worker employed by Palm, and Gabe Parrish, a retired boxer. Naturally, everyone has secrets to keep--but the truths lurking beneath the surface this time may make this Walker's final case.THE AMOS WALKER SERIES:Poison Blonde / Retro / Nicotine Kiss / American Detective / The Left-handed Dollar / Infernal Angels / Burning Midnight / Don't Look for Me / You Know Who Killed Me / The Sundown Speech / The Lioness is the Hunter / Black and White Ball / When Old Midnight Comes Along / Cutthroat Dogs / Monkey in the MiddleTHE PAGE MURDOCK SERIES:The High Rocks / Stamping Ground / Murdock's Law / City of Widows / White Desert / Port Hazard / The Book of Murdock / Cape Hell / Wild JusticeTHE PETER MACKLIN SERIES:Something Borrowed, Something Black / Little Black DressTHE VALENTINO MYSTERIES:Frames / Alone / Alive! / Shoot / Brazen / IndigoOther books by Loren D. Estleman:Aces & EightsThe Ballad of Black BartBlack Powder, White SmokeThe Book of MurdockThe Branch and the Scaffold and Billy GashadeThe Confessions of Al CaponeThe Eagle and the ViperGas CityJitterbugJourney of the Dead and The Undertaker's WifeThe Long High Noon and The Adventures of Johnny VermillionThe Master ExecutionerPaperback JackRagtime CowboysThe Rocky Mountain Moving Picture AssociationRoy & Lillie: A Love StoryThunder City

When Amos Walker revisits novelist Eugene Booth at his lakeside bungalow in Michigan, he finds him hanging in the bathroom with the pages he has written missing. Amos must find the truth behind the supposed suicide and fulfil the victim's last wish - to share that truth with the rest of the world.

The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry had just reinvented himself and Cormac McCarthy's career had not yet taken off. Loren Estleman's update connects these new masters with older writers, assesses the genre's past, present, and future, and takes account of the renaissance of western movies.

Amos Walker, the quintessential hardboiled detective, is mortal after all. Jeff Starzek, an old friend who smuggles cigarettes for a living, saved Amos Walker's life, bringing him to a hospital after Walker took a bullet to the leg. A month later, Walker, still convalescing, gets a panicked phone call from Starzek's sister. Jeff is missing.

The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. He has transformed the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, fires - every hazard in a raw West - in his hands, become presentable.