The Sundown Speech: An Amos Walker Mystery (Amos Walker Novels), by Loren D. Estleman
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The Sundown Speech, a hot new Amos Walker mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel.
Amos Walker is hired by Helen and Dante Gunner, a bohemian Ann Arbor couple, to find Jerry Marcus, a film director who has disappeared with their investment money. It's one of Walker's easiest jobs to date. In just a few short hours, Walker locates Marcus in his bedroom...murdered, his body shoved into a cupboard, a bullet through his head.
This case is opened and shut quickly, but Walker can't quite let it go. When Dante is arrested for the murder Walker finds himself again in Helen's employ, this time trying to prove that Dante didn't do it.
When Walker interviews Holly Zacharias, a college student who was the last person to see Marcus alive, things get interesting. Because if Marcus is dead, and Dante is his killer, then who is driving by in the Crown Vic, shooting at Walker and Holly?
Jerry Marcus just might still be alive, and his plans may be worse than anything Walker can imagine.
The Sundown Speech: An Amos Walker Mystery (Amos Walker Novels), by Loren D. Estleman- Amazon Sales Rank: #570779 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x .92" w x 5.80" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
About the Author LOREN D. ESTLEMAN is author of more than seventy novels, including over twenty featuring Amos Walker (Don't Look For Me, The Sundown Speech and You Know Who Killed Me, among many others). Winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Another Terrific Amos Walker Mystery By Benjamin Boulden THE SUNDOWN SPEECH is the most recent entry, 25th overall, in Loren Estleman’s justly celebrated Amos Walker private detective series. Dante and Heloise Gunnar were swindled out of $15,000 by a would-be director named Jerry Marcus. Jerry hooked the couple for an investment in a film dubiously titled Mr. Alien Elect, and when he stopped returning telephone calls the couple contacted Walker. It is a straight missing person case and Amos reluctantly takes it; reluctantly because the Gunnar’s, particularly Heloise, are off-putting to his working class sensibilities, and all the leads are in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A scant 45 minutes from his beloved Detroit, but worlds apart—“The place looked as far away from the Motor City as Morocco.”The setting is post 9/11, but not by much. The preamble is as cool and stylish as anything I’ve read:“Roll the clock back a dozen years, maybe more; Michael Jackson was still alive, Iris, too. I could walk all day without limping. Tweet was bird talk, the chain bookstore was the greatest threat to civilization since ragtime music, and the only time you saw a black president was in a sci-fi film. Going back is always a crapshoot.”And it only gets better. Amos Walker is his usual smart ass and hard-boiled self, and the mystery is something of a locked door job. This time, however—and not to give too much away—the locked door is in the police forensics lab. The supporting cast is college town unusual; big and brassy while lacking experience and boasting excessive aspirations. A photographer who photographs nudes in public places not minding the accompanying public decency ticket and bail money for his model. The local police have a thing for writing parking tickets, and the detective working the case keeps giving Amos a polite, but resolute “sundown speech”—thanks for your help, please go back to Detroit. Amos doesn’t much want to stick around either, but the facts keep him there as the case turns more and more serious, and more and more curious.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Worthy entry in a long series of successful gumshoe tales... By William E. Adams This is perhaps the fourth "Amos Walker" novel I've read, but the first in many years. The only reason I withheld a fifth star is that I found it a tad heavy in description, while I prefer my "hard-boiled private eye" reading to be top-heavy in dialogue, a la the late Robert B. Parker. I must say the descriptions are well-done, but not vital in my opinion. However, I liked the plot and characters, and if you do buy or borrow this book, do not skip the brief "author's note" at the end. It clarifies why this entry exists and why it is set where it is. It's good enough so that halfway through I drove back to the branch library and turned it a police procedural that had bored me enough in the first 40 pages to make me give up on it, and instead I checked out the Amos Walker episode from the prior year, which I will begin tomorrow. Although there is no sex in "The Sundown Speech" and I never mind a little of that in my private eye thrillers, there are nude people involved. Enough said. I don't like reviews with spoilers.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Amos Walker - Marlowe of the Motor City... By Bob Manning The phone rang while I was busy on a case; that's to say, I was busy searching my desk for the bottle of Scotch that until yesterday was in the bottom drawer of my desk but had now mysteriously disappeared. No doubt the cleaning crew, in a fit of safety-consciousness, had removed it as a hazard.“Yeah?” I growled, after spearing the receiver on the second ring.The caller identified himself and I relaxed.“Sorry,” I said, “I was overdue for my daily cold-call from the Church of The Eviscerated Wallet.”My caller, a well-known, syndicated jounalist who bought his shoes one at a time, laughed on his end of the line.“What is it about you P.I.s and your aphorisms? Walker's like that all the time - can barely function without a cynical wisecrack.”“We all get hit on the head with the Collected Works of Chandler at some point,” I told him, not looking at the leather-bound tome on top of the filing cabinet. Sometimes I use it for inspiration, sometimes for a paperweight – Chandler is multi-purpose.“But speaking of Walker – what's he been up to lately?” I asked, not having heard from my friend in a while.“He's good – had a missing persons case recently that turned into more – got hired by a couple out in Ann Arbor who put money into some movie producer's project - ““Don't tell me – the movie guy vanished with the money and the investors didn't want to involve the police.”“Something like that. And get this – Walker finds the guy in a day, a bullet in his head and no sign of the money.”“Cops like anybody for it?”“The husband of the couple who hired Walker. Simple enough, yeah?”“Knowing Amos, probably not,” I suggested. Another laugh at the end of the phone.“The guy's wife and attorney hire him a second time to prove the husband's innocence, and while Walker's out doing his thing, someone takes a shot at him – while the suspect's still in a cell.”“Sounds like the husband was set up,” I mused. “Walker get hit?” I was a little concerned, given his recent past – lately he seemed to attract bullets like an electromagnet.“No, he's fine – I don't even think anyone had to bail him out of a hospital this time.”“That's a first – how's he doing with the Vicodin thing?”“No mention of it to me – and you know, when he gave me the story, there was a clarity in the details that reminded me of some of his early cases. Like he went out into sunlight for once, I don't know how to describe it.”“And you a prize-winning journalist? For shame,” I laughed, shifting in my chair.My foot caught something under the desk and it fell over with a bottle-falling-over sound.“In any case, I'm not worried about the guy,” said the reporter, “it seems like he's back on form, so no doubt he'll be back in trouble in short order.”I didn't doubt it. It was good to know Walker was back; there's not many guys like us left, and fewer like him. I said goodbye to the reporter and hung up. It hadn't occurred to either of us to ask why he'd called.I reached under the desk and retrieved the bottle I had kicked over. Looked like I'd misjudged the cleaner after all.I poured a shot and held the glass up to the light, watching the golden liquid swirl gently. Offering a silent toast to the gods of distant friends and orphan P.I.s, I knocked it back, then grabbed my hat and headed out into the night.
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