So let’s all go ….down to Dumas Walker!
Ok so when I looked back at the actual dates in my Book Journal, I see that the first book listed IS actually Motor City Blue by Loren Estleman. The book was first released in 1980, and by that time Estleman was already up to book 6, but I went back and started at the beginning. It appears, I was underwhelmed!
My blurb….. Amos Walker is looking for the missing foster daughter of a mobster.Estleman does well, maintaining excitement chapter to chapter.
From Goodreads……
Amos Walker, a tough-talking Detroit detective, will delight mystery buffs. Loren D. Estleman has written a series of fast-paced mysteries which occur in the Motor City where murders are committed nightly within full view of the glittering Renaissance Center. Continue Reading
and from Amazon……
“If I see my name in tomorrow’s paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black.” Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn’t take “no” for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla’s whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she’s become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. . The photo, in turn leads Walker into the seedy world of Detroit’s porn shops and blue movies, where Marla’s trail becomes even murkier?.and increasingly more dangerous to follow. . As first cases go, Walker could have certainly asked for one less challenging?...More at Amazon
Hum, that description starts to bring back the memories!!
Looking over my Goodreads shelf I see that I read eight of the first 10 Amos Walker mysteries, then there was a seven-year gap between 1990’s Sweet Women Lie and 1997’s Never Street and in that time my ADD brain had moved on to other series! I have revisited Amos though in Book #20 The Left-Handed Dollar and book 16 Poison Blue is on my too be read shelf!! Maybe it’s time to revisit Amos!! Too Many Books,Too Little Time!! But if you are a fan of the genre and you haven’t read an Amos Walker book shame on you!! Get reading!!
