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Estleman received
the Western Writers of America
Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement
during the WWA convention's Awards Banquet
in Albuquerque, NM, on June 16, 2012
[ new books ]
April 2013
ALIVE!
A Valentino Mystery
[ From Forge
Books ]
Bela Lugosi’s
Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder
Everyone knows
the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. But before
Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous 1930s Hollywood
icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of the monster.
The screen test
footage was lost for decades, until Valentino, that never-say-die
film archivist, gets a hot tip about the whereabouts of the incriminating
(for really bad, heavily accented acting) footage. But it comes
with a price far greater than the money he'll have to pay. Someone
would kill to get that reel of film, and that makes Valentino
a mortal obstacle who would rather not die for art. People have
already been murdered for the film, and Val doesn’t want
to push his luck…
but boy, that reel is too good to let go….
Enter a crew
of steampunk fans. Loving the arcane strangeness that is Valentino’s
life—not to mention the completely glam prospect of seeing
the original filmic Count Dracula as the Frankenstein monster—they
will find a way to save Valentino and Lugosi's infamous screen
test. Or if they can’t do that, have a great party anyway.
Val just hopes it's not a wake.…
In Alive!, Loren
D. Estleman delivers a mystery that only he can.
June 11, 2013
THE CONFESSIONS
OF AL CAPONE
[ From Forge
Books ]
From the Publishers
Weekly Review:
Edgar-finalist Estleman (Burning Midnight) presents a nuanced
and compelling fictionalized portrait of the best-known gangster
of them all, Al Capone. In 1944, J. Edgar Hoover pulls Peter
Vasco off a desk job for a special undercover assignment. Capone
is in Florida, dying of syphilis, and Hoover hopes the right
person can get information from him that would enable the bureau
to make cases against successors to his criminal throne. As Vasco’s
father was acquainted with the mobster from a long-ago incident,
the young investigator is tapped to pose as a priest and work
his way into Capone’s inner circle to elicit what useful
information he can. The book alternates between third-person
description of Vasco’s efforts and a convincing first-person
narration by Capone as he shares some of his secrets. Estleman
captures his lead’s ambivalence at deceiving others for
a greater good perfectly, and the directions the plot takes aren’t
always foreseeable.
Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (June)
To read an
excerpt from the novel, click HERE
 Estleman set up this "memory
board" for quick reference. It's a fair representation of
the inside of his head
all the time he was writing The Confessions of Al Capone.
At 26, he was the most powerful
crimelord in history.
He was barely 30 at the time of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Click HERE to read:
A Public
Enemy Primer:
Little-Known Facts about Al Capone
by Loren D.
Estleman
October 2012
THE PERILS
OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
SHORT STORIES
[ From Tyrus
Books ]
Authorized and licensed
by
Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In this adventurous
collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, readers will find themselves
right by the legendary detective's side as he investigates a
whole new series of crimes. While readers will recognize some
of the stories, others like "The Serpent's Egg" are
wonderful pieces they'll discover for the very first time.
Also includes
three previously published essays, "Channeling Holmes,"
"On the Significance of Boswells," and "Was Sherlock
Holmes The Shadow? (A Trifle)" that delve deeper into the
daring world of Sherlock Holmes and the imaginative mind of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle.
June 2012
BURNING MIDNIGHT
The 22nd
Amos Walker detective novel
Hardcover . ISBN 978-0765331205
From the Publishers
Weekly Starred Review:
An unusual client hires Amos Walker in Edgar-finalist Estleman’s
outstanding 22nd novel featuring the Detroit PI (after 2011’s
Infernal Angels). Walker’s longtime friend and professional
ally, Insp. John Alderdyce “of the Detroit Police Homicide
Division,” is worried about his son’s Mexican brother-in-law,
Ernesto Pasada. Pasada has started hanging out in Detroit’s
Mexicantown with the Maldados, a gang “with a branch office
in every city between here and Juarez” and no scruples about
killing cops. Alderdyce wants Walker to somehow make the Maldados
believe that keeping their hooks in Pasada is more trouble than
it’s worth. The inspector gives the PI a plausible cover
story for poking around Mexicantown, but soon after Walker does
so, the bodies start to fall. Estleman offers one of his cleverest
solutions to the whodunit, which is no small achievement and
another sign that his font of creativity remains full.
From the New York
Times:
There’s
a carton of cigarettes in his desk, a bottle of Old Smuggler
in his safe and a gun riding on his hip, which means that Amos
Walker, proud relic of the grand old school of American noir
fiction, is still in business. Loren D. Estleman’s Detroit
shamus shows his moxie in BURNING MIDNIGHT (Forge/Tom Doherty,
$24.99) by venturing into the off-limits neighborhood of Mexicantown
to extract a 16-year-old kid who has fallen in with a violent
gang. As the private eye points out to the old friend who talked
him into this assignment, it’s really a job for Bruce Willis.
Being a gentleman, Walker prefers to have a civilized sit-down
with an elder statesman in the Mexican Mafia known as El Tigre
del Norte. Hard-boiled gumshoes and venerable crime figures speak
the same language, so many elaborate formalities are observed
and much florid imagery is exchanged during the “delicate
negotiations” held in the back room of the best eatery in
Mexicantown. Every time you think no one’s writing books
like this anymore, along comes Estleman to restore your faith.
[ From Crippen
& Landru ]
VALENTINO: FILM DETECTIVE
[a collection of short stories]
Paperback ISBN 978-1932009965
The Left-Handed Dollar
now available in Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0765319579
[ December 2010,
Forge Books ]
THE LEFT-HANDED
DOLLAR
Hardcover . ISBN 978-0765319548
Kindle . ASIN B003P8QDBE
The Walker
short story collection was 2nd on the Mysterious Bookshop 2010
Best List,
which appeared in Entertainment Weekly.
[ September 2010
]
AMOS WALKER:
THE COMPLETE STORY COLLECTION
Tyrus Books
(Consortium, dist.), $32.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-935562-24-5
In honor of
Amos Walker's 30th anniversary (1980-2010), the author has compiled
a mammoth 600-plus-page collection of all 31 Walker stories,
with an introduction by Estleman and the new, never-before-published
story, "Sometimes a Hyena."
From the Publishers
Weekly Starred Review:
All the elements that have made Estleman one of the best hard-boiled
writers of all time--just a notch below Chandler and Hammett--are
present in these 32 short stories.
To read the full review, click
here
From the Library
Journal Starred Review:
Detroit's most famous gumshoe, Amos Walker, is back in this mammoth
collection of short stories. The omnibus contains 32 tales, including
the previously unpublished "Sometimes a Hyena," and
flawlessly showcases Estleman's distinct and penetrating style.
To read the full review, click
here
From the Bookgasm
review:
AMOS WALKER: THE COMPLETE STORY COLLECTION is reason enough to
not only celebrate, but finally acknowledge Estleman as one of
the essential and influential authors of modern crime fiction,
right up there with the likes of Ross Macdonald, Robert B. Parker
and all the rest. It is essential reading.
To read the full review, click
here
From the Booklist
review:
Walker has
a built-in audience of devoted fans; new readers who check out
this sampler will be pleased to know they have 30 years of fine
novels waiting for them.
To read the full review, click
here
[ August 3, 2010,
Forge Books ]
ROY & LILLIE
A Love Story
Hardcover .
ISBN 0765322285
Kindle . ASIN B003P2WJ0O
The perfect
romance between a reprobate Old West judge and
a celebrated British beauty; perfect because they never met.
[ Now Available
From Forge Books ]
THE BOOK OF MURDOCK
8th in the Page Murdock Series
Hardcover . ISBN 978-0-7653-1600-4
Kindle . ASIN B003H4I43Q
From the
Publishers Weekly Review:
...an exciting
western loaded with intrigue, suspense, and clever plot twists.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock is sent to Texas in 1884 to
capture a gang of armed robbers. The wrinkle is that Murdock
must go disguised as a traveling preacher, toting a Bible in
one hand and a pistol in the other.... This is one of Estleman's
best, a smart, tightly wrapped story about an honest lawman who
drinks Old Forester and knows the difference between a Presbyterian
and a Unitarian.
To read the full review, click
here
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