Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter.

Estelman attended Eastern Michigan University.

He is most famous for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker. Other series characters include Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. He has also written a series of novels about the history of crime in Detroit (also the setting of his Walker books.) His 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.

Bibliography

*The Oklahoma Punk (1976; AKA Red Highway)
*Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula; or, The Adventures of the Sanguinary Count (1978)
*The Hider (1978; western)
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979)k
*The High Rocks (1979; Page Murdock)
*Motor City Blue (1980; Amos Walker)
*Stamping Ground (1980; Page Murdock)
*"Angel Eyes" (1981; Amos Walker)
*Aces and Eights (1981; western)
*The Wolfer (1981; western)
*The Midnight Man (1982; Amos Walker)
*Murdock's Law (1982; Page Murdock)
*The Glass Highway (1983; Amos Walker)
*Mister St. John (1983; western)
*The Stranglers (1984; Page Murdock)
*Kill Zone (1984; Peter Macklin)
*This Old Bill (1984; western)
*Roses Are Dead (1985; Peter Macklin)
*Sugartown (1985; Amos Walker)
*Gun Man (1985; western)
*Any Man's Death (1986; Peter Macklin)
*Every Brilliant Eye (1986; Amos Walker)
*Lady Yesterday (1987; Amos Walker)
*Bloody Season (1987; western)
*Downriver (1988; Amos Walker)
*General Murders (1988, Amos Walker ) "10 Amos Walker short stories"
*Peeper (1989; Ralph Poteet)
*Silent Thunder (1989; Amos Walker)
*The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman (1989; selected by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg)
*"Sweet Women Lie" (1990; Amos Walker)
*Whiskey River (1990; Detroit series)
*Motown (1991; Detroit series)
*Sudden Country (1991; western)
*King of the Corner (1992; Detroit series)
*People Who Kill (1993) "short stories"
*Edsel (1995; Detroit series)
*City of Widows (1995; Page Murdock)
*Stress (1996; Detroit series)
*Never Street (1997; Amos Walker)
*Billy Gashade: An American Epic (1997; historical)
*The Witch Finder (1998; Amos Walker)
*Jitterbug (1998; Detroit series)
*Journey of the Dead (1998; western)
*The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association (1999; historical)
*The Hours of the Virgin (1999; Amos Walker)
*Thunder City (1999; Detroit series)
*White Desert (2000; Page Murdock)
*A Smile on the Face of the Tiger (2000; Amos Walker)
*The Master Executioner (2001)
*Sinister Heights (2002)
*Something Borrowed, Something Black (2002; Peter Macklin)
*Poison Blonde (2003; Amos Walker)
*Retro (2004; Amos Walker).
*Little Black Dress (2005; Peter Macklin)
*Nicotine Kiss (2006; Amos Walker.
*American Detective (2007; Amos Walker)
*Gas City (2008)
* Frames (2008)

External links

* [http://www.lorenestleman.com/ Official web site]
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/lorendestleman Loren D. Estleman's page at Macmillan.com]
* [http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/estleman.html Biography at "Thrilling Detective" web site]

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