Loren D. Estleman

17 Series

Loren D. Estleman is an acclaimed American author known for his crime and western fiction, most notably the Amos Walker series. He has multiple active series and is recognized as an authority on criminal history and the American West. Estleman began his writing career at age 15 and became a full-time writer in 1980, now spending six hours daily on his 1950 manual typewriter. He resides in Michigan.

Loren D. Estleman's works include "The Oklahoma Punk," also published as "Red Highway." "The Black Moon" is a collaborative effort with Ed Gorman, W.R. Philbrick, Robert J. Randisi, and L.J. Washburn. "Legend" features contributions from Judy Alter, Jane Candia Coleman, Ed Gorman, Elmer Kelton, Robert J. Randisi, and James Reasoner. "Lost Trails" includes stories by William W. Johnstone, Elmer Kelton, and Louis L'Amour. Each anthology showcases a diverse range of storytelling talents.

Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshal

The High Rocks

(1979)

Stamping Ground

(1980)

Murdock's Law

(1982)

The Stranglers

(1985)

City of Widows

(1994)

White Desert

(2000)

Port Hazard

(2004)

The Book of Murdock

(2010)

Cape Hell

(2016)

Wild Justice

(2018)

Amos Walker

Motor City Blue

(1980)

Angel Eyes

(1981)

The Midnight Man

(1982)

The Glass Highway

(1983)

Sugartown

(1984)

Every Brilliant Eye

(1986)

Lady Yesterday

(1987)

Downriver

(1988)

Silent Thunder

(1989)

Sweet Women Lie

(1990)

Never Street

(1997)

The Witchfinder

(1998)

The Hours of the Virgin

(1999)

A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

(2000)

Sinister Heights

(2002)

Poison Blonde

(2003)

Retro

(2004)

Nicotine Kiss

(2005)

American Detective

(2007)

The Left-Handed Dollar

(2010)

Infernal Angels

(2011)

Burning Midnight

(2012)

Don't Look for Me

(2014)

You Know Who Killed Me

(2014)

The Sundown Speech

(2015)

The Lioness Is the Hunter

(2017)

Black and White Ball

(2018)

When Old Midnight Comes Along

(2020)

Cut-Throat Dogs

(2021)

Monkey in the Middle

(2022)

City Walls

(2023)

Amos Walker Collections

General Murders

(1988)

Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection

(2010)

Peter Macklin

Kill Zone

(1984)

Roses are Dead

(1985)

Any Man's Death

(1986)

Something Borrowed, Something Black

(2002)

Little Black Dress

(2004)

Detroit

Whiskey River

(1990)

Motown

(1991)

King of the Corner

(1992)

Edsel

(1995)

Stress

(1996)

Jitterbug

(1998)

Thunder City

(1999)

Valentino

Frames

(2008)

Alone

(2009)

Alive!

(2013)

Shoot

(2016)

Brazen

(2016)

Indigo

(2020)

Vamp

(2023)

The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventure of the Peerless Peer

(1974)(By: Philip Jose Farmer)

War of the Worlds

(1975)(By: Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman)

The Giant Rat of Sumatra

(1976)(By: Richard L. Boyer)

Sherlock vs Dracula

(1978)

The Stalwart Companions

(1978)(By: H. Paul Jeffers)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

(1979)

The Ectoplasmic Man

(1985)(By: Daniel Stashower)

The Whitechapel Horrors

(1992)(By: Edward B. Hanna)

The Seventh Bullet

(1992)(By: Daniel D. Victor)

Seance for a Vampire

(1994)(By: Fred Saberhagen)

The Angel of the Opera

(1994)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Titanic Tragedy

(1996)(By: William Seil)

The Star of India

(1998)(By: Carole Buggé)

The Man from Hell

(2000)(By: Barrie Roberts)

The Haunting of Torre Abbey

(2000)(By: Carole Buggé)

Between the Thames and the Tiber

(2011)(By: Ted Riccardi)

The Web Weaver

(2012)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Grimswell Curse

(2013)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Devil's Promise

(2014)(By: David Stuart Davies)

The Albino's Treasure

(2015)(By: Stuart Douglas)

The White Worm

(2016)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Ripper Legacy

(2016)(By: David Stuart Davies)

Murder at Sorrow's Crown

(2016)(By: Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger)

The Counterfeit Detective

(2016)(By: Stuart Douglas)

The Moonstone's Curse

(2017)(By: Sam Siciliano)

Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(2017)(By: David Marcum)

The Improbable Prisoner

(2018)(By: Stuart Douglas)

The Devil and the Four

(2018)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Instrument of Death

(2019)(By: David Stuart Davies)

The Martian Menace

(2020)(By: Eric Brown)

The Venerable Tiger

(2020)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Crusader's Curse

(2020)(By: Stuart Douglas)

Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden

(2021)(By: Steven Savile)

Revenge from the Grave

(2022)(By: David Stuart Davies)

Deathly Relics

(2023)(By: Sam Siciliano)

The Gentleman Burglar

(2024)(By: Sam Siciliano)

Standalone Novels

Red Highway / The Oklahoma Punk

(1976)

The Hider

(1980)

Aces and Eights

(1981)

The Wolfer

(1983)

Mister St. John

(1983)

This Old Bill

(1984)

Gun Man

(1985)

Bloody Season

(1987)

Peeper

(1989)

Sudden Country

(1991)

Billy Gashade

(1997)

Journey of the Dead

(1998)

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

(1999)

The Master Executioner

(2001)

Black Powder, White Smoke

(2002)

The Undertaker's Wife

(2005)

The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion

(2006)

Gas City

(2008)

The Branch and the Scaffold

(2009)

Roy & Lillie: A Love Story

(2010)

The Confessions of Al Capone

(2013)

Ragtime Cowboys

(2014)

The Long High Noon

(2015)

Nearly Nero

(2017)

The Ballad of Black Bart

(2017)

The Eagle and the Viper

(2021)

Paperback Jack

(2022)

Short Stories/Novellas

Dead Soldier

(1982)

Greektown

(1983)

Eight Mile and Dequindre

(1985)

I’m in the Book

(1986)

Bodyguards Shoot Second

(1987)

The Man Who Loved Noir

(1991)

Cigarette Stop

(1991)

Safe House

(1992)

The Crooked Way

(1993)

Slipstream

(1994)

The Alchemist

(1999)

Lady on Ice

(2003)

Square One

(2006)

Trust Me

(2007)

Kill the Cat

(2007)

The Bandit

(2012)

Sob Sister

(2015)

Short Story Collections

The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman

(1989)

Valentino: Film Detective

(2011)

The Bandit & Others

(2012)

Evil Grows & Other Thrilling Tales

(2012)

The Perils of Sherlock Holmes

(2012)

Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes

(2013)

The Adventure of the Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes

(2014)

Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places

(2016)

Contention and Other Frontier Stories

(2019)

Legend

(2019)(With: Johnny D. Boggs)

Non-Fiction

The Wister Trace

(1955)

Writing the Popular Novel

(2004)

Amos Walker's Detroit

(2007)

Bibliomysteries

The Book of Virtue

(2012)(By: Ken Bruen)

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

(2012)(By: C.J. Box)

The Book Thing

(2012)(By: Laura Lippman)

The Book Case

(2012)(By: Nelson DeMille)

An Acceptable Sacrifice

(2012)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Death Leaves a Bookmark

(2012)(By: William Link)

The Final Testament

(2013)(By: Peter Blauner)

Rides a Stranger

(2013)(By: David Bell)

The Long Sonata of the Dead

(2013)(By: Andrew Taylor)

The Book of Ghosts

(2013)(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)

The Compendium of Srem

(2014)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

What's in a Name?

(2014)(By: Thomas H. Cook)

Remaindered

(2014)(By: Peter Lovesey)

The Sequel

(2014)(By: R.L. Stine)

The Gospel of Sheba

(2014)(By: Lyndsay Faye)

Book Club

(2014)

The Nature of My Inheritance

(2014)(By: Bradford Morrow)

It's in the Book

(2014)(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)

The Scroll

(2014)(By: Anne Perry)

The Book of the Lion

(2015)(By: Thomas Perry)

The Little Men

(2015)(By: Megan Abbott)

Condor in the Stacks

(2015)(By: James Grady)

Mystery, Inc.

(2015)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

Every Seven Years

(2015)(By: Denise Mina)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

The Travelling Companion

(2016)(By: Ian Rankin)

Citadel

(2016)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Reconciliation Day

(2016)(By: Christopher Fowler)

Dead Dames Don't Sing

(2016)(By: John Harvey)

The Haze

(2016)(By: James W. Hall)

Hoodoo Harry

(2017)(By: Joe R. Lansdale)

The Pretty Little Box

(2018)(By: Charles Todd)

Seven Years

(2018)(By: Peter Robinson)

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)(By: Robert Olen Butler)

The Last Honest Horse Thief

(2018)(By: Michael Koryta)

The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository

(2018)(By: John Connolly)

The Girl Who Did Say No

(2020)(By: David Handler)

The Traitor

(2022)(By: Martin Edwards)

The Dark Door

(2022)(By: Lisa Unger)

The Honeymoon Trap

(2022)(By: Peter Swanson)

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries

The Book of Virtue

(2012)(By: Ken Bruen)

The Scroll

(2014)(By: Anne Perry)

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

(2012)(By: C.J. Box)

An Acceptable Sacrifice

(2012)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Death Leaves a Bookmark

(2012)(By: William Link)

Seven Years

(2018)(By: Peter Robinson)

The Book Thing

(2012)(By: Laura Lippman)

The Book of Ghosts

(2013)(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)

Book Club

(2014)

The Long Sonata of the Dead

(2013)(By: Andrew Taylor)

The Final Testament

(2013)(By: Peter Blauner)

Rides a Stranger

(2013)(By: David Bell)

What's in a Name?

(2014)(By: Thomas H. Cook)

It's in the Book

(2014)(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)

The Nature of My Inheritance

(2014)(By: Bradford Morrow)

Remaindered

(2014)(By: Peter Lovesey)

The Compendium of Srem

(2014)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

The Gospel of Sheba

(2014)(By: Lyndsay Faye)

The Sequel

(2014)(By: R.L. Stine)

The Book of the Lion

(2015)(By: Thomas Perry)

The Little Men

(2015)(By: Megan Abbott)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

Every Seven Years

(2015)(By: Denise Mina)

Citadel

(2016)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Condor in the Stacks

(2015)(By: James Grady)

Mystery, Inc.

(2015)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

The Travelling Companion

(2016)(By: Ian Rankin)

The Haze

(2016)(By: James W. Hall)

Dead Dames Don't Sing

(2016)(By: John Harvey)

Reconciliation Day

(2016)(By: Christopher Fowler)

Hoodoo Harry

(2017)(By: Joe R. Lansdale)

The Pretty Little Box

(2018)(By: Charles Todd)

The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository

(2018)(By: John Connolly)

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)(By: Robert Olen Butler)

The Last Honest Horse Thief

(2018)(By: Michael Koryta)

The Book Case

(2012)(By: Nelson DeMille)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

The Girl Who Did Say No

(2020)(By: David Handler)

The Traitor

(2022)(By: Martin Edwards)

The Dark Door

(2022)(By: Lisa Unger)

The Honeymoon Trap

(2022)(By: Peter Swanson)

Akashic Noir

San Francisco Noir

(2002)

Seattle Noir

(2003)

Bronx Noir

(2003)

Brooklyn Noir

(2004)

Brooklyn Noir 2

(2005)

Chicago Noir

(2005)

Manhattan Noir

(2006)

Miami Noir: The Classics

(2006)

D.C. Noir

(2006)

Baltimore Noir

(2006)

London Noir

(2006)

New Orleans Noir

(2007)

Los Angeles Noir

(2007)

Wall Street Noir

(2007)

Havana Noir

(2007)

Detroit Noir

(2007)

Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth

(2008)

Toronto Noir

(2008)

Las Vegas Noir

(2008)

Manhattan Noir 2

(2008)

Paris Noir

(2008)

Istanbul Noir

(2008)

Boston Noir

(2009)

Rome Noir

(2009)

San Francisco Noir 2

(2009)

Portland Noir

(2009)

Delhi Noir

(2009)

Phoenix Noir

(2009)

Los Angeles Noir 2

(2010)

Mexico City Noir

(2010)

Richmond Noir

(2010)

Orange County Noir

(2010)

Indian Country Noir

(2010)

Moscow Noir

(2010)

Lone Star Noir

(2010)

Philadelphia Noir

(2010)

Haiti Noir

(2010)

Copenhagen Noir

(2010)

Pittsburgh Noir

(2011)

San Diego Noir

(2011)

Pittsburgh Noir

(2011)

Barcelona Noir

(2011)

Cape Cod Noir

(2011)

Staten Island Noir

(2012)

Mumbai Noir

(2012)

Long Island Noir

(2012)

Venice Noir

(2012)

Kingston Noir

(2012)

St. Petersburg Noir

(2012)

Kansas City Noir

(2012)

Boston Noir 2

(2012)

Manila Noir

(2013)

Buffalo Noir

(2013)

Twin Cities Noir

(2013)

Dallas Noir

(2013)

Haiti Noir 2

(2013)

Singapore Noir

(2014)

Prison Noir

(2014)

Tel Aviv Noir

(2014)

Tehran Noir

(2014)

Belfast Noir

(2014)

Helsinki Noir

(2014)

Providence Noir

(2015)

Chicago Noir: The Classics

(2015)

Memphis Noir

(2015)

Zagreb Noir

(2015)

Marseille Noir

(2015)

Beirut Noir

(2015)

Stockholm Noir

(2016)

Brussels Noir

(2016)

Mississippi Noir

(2016)

St. Louis Noir

(2016)

Prague Noir

(2016)

San Juan Noir

(2016)

Oakland Noir

(2017)

Trinidad Noir

(2017)

Atlanta Noir

(2017)

New Haven Noir

(2017)

Montana Noir

(2017)

Buenos Aires Noir

(2017)

Montreal Noir

(2017)

Berlin Noir

(2018)

São Paulo Noir

(2018)

Santa Cruz Noir

(2018)

Lagos Noir

(2018)

Marrakech Noir

(2018)

Baghdad Noir

(2018)

Vancouver Noir

(2018)

Sydney Noir

(2018)

Hong Kong Noir

(2018)

Amsterdam Noir

(2019)

Houston Noir

(2019)

Columbus Noir

(2020)

Santa Fe Noir

(2020)

Alabama Noir

(2020)

Addis Ababa Noir

(2020)

Tampa Bay Noir

(2020)

Belgrade Noir

(2020)

Mysterious Profiles

Rambo

(2022)(By: David Morrell)

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike

(2022)(By: Robert Crais)

Jack Taylor

(2022)(By: Ken Bruen)

Jack Reacher

(2022)(By: Lee Child)

Charlie Parker

(2022)(By: John Connolly)

Hieronymus Bosch

(2022)(By: Michael Connelly)

Lincoln Rhyme

(2022)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Alex Delaware

(2022)(By: Jonathan Kellerman)

Tess Monaghan

(2022)(By: Laura Lippman)

Charlie Resnick

(2022)(By: John Harvey)

Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus

(2022)(By: Faye Kellerman)

Inspector Morse

(2022)(By: Colin Dexter)

Dismas Hardy

(2022)(By: John Lescroart)

Bob Lee Swagger

(2022)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Aloysius X. L. Pendergast

(2022)(By: Douglas Preston)

Lou Boldt

(2022)(By: Ridley Pearson)

Spenser

(2022)(By: Robert B. Parker)

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

(2022)(By: Anne Perry)

John Rebus

(2022)(By: Ian Rankin)

Mallory

(2022)(By: Carol O'Connell)

Jane Whitefield

(2022)(By: Thomas Perry)

Ian Rutledge

(2022)(By: Charles Todd)

Amos Walker

(2022)

Precious Ramotswe

(2022)(By: Alexander McCall Smith)

Maisie Dobbs

(2022)(By: Jacqueline Winspear)

The Lincoln Lawyer

(2022)(By: Michael Connelly)

Condor

(2023)(By: James Grady)

Ben Kincaid

(2023)(By: William Bernhardt)

Repairman Jack

(2023)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

Joe Pickett

(2024)(By: C.J. Box)

Peter Diamond

(2024)(By: Peter Lovesey)

Nathan Heller

(2024)(By: Max Allan Collins)

Painted Turtle

Amos Walker's Detroit

(2007)

Travelin' Man

(2009)(By: Gary Graff)

Techno Rebels

(2010)(By: Dan Sicko)

MC5 Sonically Speaking

(2010)(By: Brett Callwood)

Reimagining Detroit

(2010)(By: John Gallagher)

The Stooges Head On

(2011)(By: Alice Cooper,Brett Callwood)

Revolution Detroit

(2013)(By: John Gallagher)

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy

(2014)(By: Charles K. Hyde)

The Art of Memory

(2014)(By: Thomas R. Dilley)

Great Lakes Island Escapes

(2016)(By: Maureen Dunphy)

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra

(2016)(By: Laurie Lanzen Harris,Paul Ganson)

Saving Arcadia

(2017)(By: Heather Shumaker,Jordan Wannemacher)

Greetings from Detroit

(2017)(By: Dan Austin)

Brewed in Michigan

(2017)(By: William Rapai)

Building the Modern World

(2018)(By: Michael H. Hodges)

The Faygo Book

(2018)(By: Joe Grimm)

The Queen Next Door

(2019)(By: Linda Solomon)

Northern Harvest

(2020)(By: Emita Brady Hill)

Anthologies

Mean Streets

(1986)

Matter of Crime

(1987)

The Black Moon

(1989)

The New Frontier

(1989)

City Sleuths and Tough Guys

(1989)

100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory

(1991)

Invitation to Murder

(1991)

Deadly Allies

(1992)

Dark Crimes 2

(1993)

Deadly Allies II

(1994)

New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories

(1994)

First Cases, Volume 1

(1996)

How the West Was Read, Volume 2

(1996)

The Night Awakens

(1998)

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(1999)

The Best of the American West II

(1999)

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

(1999)

American West

(2000)

The Shamus Game

(2000)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1

(2000)

The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years

(2001)

A Century of Great Western Stories

(2001)

Murder, My Dear Watson

(2002)

A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime

(2003)

Lost Trails

(2007)

Detroit Noir

(2007)

At the Scene of the Crime

(2008)

Ghost Towns

(2010)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

(2011)

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

(2011)

In Pursuit of Spenser

(2012)

Detroit Is Our Beat

(2015)

Bob Seger's House and Other Stories

(2016)

Silent Night, Deadly Night

(2016)

The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife

(2017)

Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors

(2018)

The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe

(2020)

Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories

(2020)

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