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An Amos Walker Mystery
Loren D. Estleman
ISBN:
0765343738
Mass Market Paperback, 288pp
Publication Date: November 2005
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
List Price: $5.99
Synposis
(from the publisher): Amos Walker has made a lot of friends--and a few
enemies--in his years as a detective in Detroit, but he has never had
to deal with quite the trouble he finds when he agrees to grant the
death-bed wish of Beryl Garnet. Beryl was a madam, but she had a son a
long while ago, and asks Walker to make sure that her son gets her
ashes when she's gone.
He finds her son, who has been in Canada since the 1960s, evading the
law since he was a Vietnam War protester. A simple favor, melancholy,
but benign. Except that before he can get settled back in Detroit
Garnet's son is dead, with him as the prime suspect.
He has little choice but to find out who might have done the deed and
tried to pin the blame on him... and in the process he discovers
another murder, of a boxer from the 1940s, Curtis Smallwood, who
happens to have been the man's father. If that wasn't bad enough, his
task is made much more complicated by the fact that the two murders,
fifty-three years apart, were committed with the very same gun. And in
a place where it was impossible for a gun to be.
Additional Notes:
17th Amos
Walker mystery.
Hardcover published May 2004 (ISBN: 0765304481).
