There are so many one-liners in this book you could squash a pack mule under their combined weight. The main character, Amos Walker, is a heavyweight prose puncher and a verbal jujitsu master. He says the kind of things you write down on 3 x 5 cards and study before parties. Jab and punch phrases...
A little bit too much.I have now read two Amos Walker books, this one and a collection of short stories, and I have yet to make up my mind about whether I truely like this character/writer or not.I like the tough streets of Detroit stuff and I think the setting, the industrial decay of the upper ...
To paraphrase author John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee series); Estleman's Amos Walker is "one of the few characters who would be comfortable communing with his Ft. Lauderdale knight in shining armor". High praise indeed from one of the "Masters" of the genre.With the recent demise of most of my fa...
Loren D. Estleman is a prolific writer and if you read mysteries, chances are you've read one of his before. I had, but it was a long time ago. When this one came up on the Kindle daily sale, I thought it was time to refresh my memory of this writer.SUGARTOWN is good one to start with. It is ...
Con fanfiction crossover si intende quella fanfiction, cioè una storia creata da un fan, che unisce due o più serie.Ecco quello che mi è sembrato questo libro: una fanfiction, scritta da un grande fan di Holmes, in cui fa scontrare il detective con Dracula.Le mie aspettative per questo libro eran...
This book and the six others in the series take place in Detroit, Michigan. I grew up near Detroit so that is the draw for me. I enjoy reading books that happen in familiar territory. Each book covers one decade from the 1930s to the 1990s. In this first book the protagonist, a newspaper journali...
Amos Walker is an entertaining character. His dialogue, as a private detective, makes me want to place him somewhere between Mike Hammer and Groucho Marx. He’s a tough guy whose asides are made to entertain himself as well as his audience. In this case he finds that he has been hired by a famo...
This was a cracker-jack of a western novel. The author was very familiar with the actual history of the Old West and wrote in a wonderful archaic style -much like True Grit. In fact, I would have given this five stars if I hadn't recognized (from the first chapter) that this story was ripped of...
Sweet! Women lie?Estleman and his Detroit detective Amos Walker is my favorite hard-boiler of all time. He's almost always dead-on laconic, and the settings in dirty and decaying Detroit are perfect for the less-said-the-better writing style that lets Estleman put over a detailed mystery in 180...
You will enjoy this book a lot more if you are familiar with the Detroit area. I lived in that area for the first thirty years of my life so I qualify in being familiar. This book is filled with street names that I know. Sinister Heights was published in 2002 when Detroit was on the verge of losi...
I ran across this series starring Peter Macklin while looking at an Estleman bibliography. Such a multi-faceted/talented author who manages to write excellent, well-written stories in multiple genres: detective, western, and thriller.Apparently this was the first in a series of Macklin novels. Wh...
The setting, Detroit, Michigan, is a plus for me as I grew up in that area. I like the familiar landmarks and the involvement of the auto industry. Motown happens in the sixties when I was in high school and college. Tiger baseball is a part of the Detroit scene that decorates the set, with the n...
I previously have read Loren D. Estleman's Sherlock Holmes work and was intrigued when I found what appeared to be a noir (hardboiled?) story.I approached it thinking I was reading something like Sam Spade style noir but it soon became apparent that it would be more like Jack Nicholson in "Chinat...