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The left-handed dollar

In his exciting twentieth mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Estleman, Loren D.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Forge, 2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Walker, Amos (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Private investigators > Michigan > Detroit > Fiction. Journalists > Crimes against > Fiction. Gangsters > Fiction. Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction. Legal stories > Michigan. Mystery fiction > Michigan.
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Summary:	In his exciting twentieth mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker's only true friend.
Item Description:	"An Amos Walker novel." "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Physical Description:	286 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780765319548 0765319543
Author Notes:	Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 15, 1952. He received a B.A. in English literature and journalism from Eastern Michigan University in 1974. He spent several years as a reporter on the police beat before leaving to write full time in 1980. He wrote book reviews for such newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post and contributed articles to such periodicals as TV Guide. He is a writer of mysteries and westerns. His first novel was published in 1976 and since then he has published more than 70 books including the Amos Walker series, Writing the Popular Novel, Roy and Lillie: A Love Story, The Confessions of Al Capone, and a The Branch and the Scaffold. He received four Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America, five Golden Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from Western Writers of America, and the Michigan Author's Award in 1997. (Bowker Author Biography)