Past Reads: May 1987 – A First Encounter with Loren Estleman’s – Amos Walker!
So let’s all go ….down to Dumas Walker! No, no oh, yea of afflicted with ADD – Amos Walker not Dumas! you duma-ass….. 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…
