DESPERATE DETROIT and Stories of Other Dire Places

Estleman, Loren D.

ISBN 10: 1440596204 / ISBN 13: 9781440596209

Published by Tyrus Books, Blue Ash, OH, 2016

About this Item

A new collection of crime and suspense short stories from Estleman, perhaps best known for his Detroit PI, Amos Walker but equally a master of both crime and western genres. Estleman, who selected 18 stories from hundreds published during nearly 40 years of writing, included among the 18 his first published story and a suspense-full western. First Edition, First Printing (with complete number line). Signed by Estleman on the title page. About 5 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches, 237 pages in dark grey paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket shows a gloomy city landscape with title in yellow and other lettering in white. Spine is yellow with black lettering and back panel features short quote from Harlan Coben. This copy is unread. Boards and text are clean complete and unmarked (except for Estleman's signature). There are no tears, creases or bumped corners. It is not remaindered or ex libris. The dustjacket shows just a touch of edgewear, o/w no significant flaws and not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.

Seller Inventory # 005627

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DESPERATE DETROIT and Stories of Other Dire Places
• Publisher: Tyrus Books, Blue Ash, OH
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440596204
• ISBN 13: 9781440596209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Private Detective
  • Crime
  • Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

• "Loren Estleman is my hero." --Harlan Coben • For fans of Estleman's long-running Amos Walker series • Eighteen collected short stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in crime fiction Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form. Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, hitmen, feuding families, prostitutes, prizefighters, bodyguards, corrupt cops, the walking dead, and ordinary people driven by desperation to commit acts of violence.

About the Author

An authority on both criminal history and the American West, Loren D. Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award.