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Lady Yesterday
Lady Yesterday
Lady Yesterday
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Lady Yesterday

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A chance encounter with an old flame sends Detroit PI Amos Walker on a hunt for her long-lost fatherIris was a great beauty when Amos Walker first saw her—a Jamaican goddess striding stark naked through an unworthy whorehouse. When he bumps into her at a high-class steakhouse just outside of Detroit, she still looks good. She’s come back from the Caribbean to seek out her father. Raised by her mother, Iris grew up thinking the man was dead, but has just learned the old trombone player may still be alive. Walker offers to dig for him: a welcome-home present for an old flame. The search leads him straight to the dark heart of the Detroit jazz scene, a seedy world where Walker is right at home, and into the crosshairs of some of the cruelest men in a very mean town. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Release dateJun 28, 2011
ISBN9781453220542
Lady Yesterday
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Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

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    Estleman throws a little bit of everything into this tale of PI Amos Walker, who in the course of searching for an old lady friend's real father, gets in the middle of a gang war between an upstart Colombian and some Italians. The plot seems a little too straightforward at first, then he throws in a few pretty good twists, but there is way too much explaining left to do at the end. On the other hand, Estleman's writing is smooth and occasionally rises to the poetic in a few passages where he seems to be channeling Raymond Chandler. To his credit, he ends up doing it with a voice of his own, and not sounding like a second rate imitator, a la Ross MacDonald in the two books of his I have read thus far.Thought about giving this more than three stars, but I think I'm becoming a tougher reviewer. There is a lot to like here, and the next time I come across one of this series in a used book store, I may pick it up.In addition to the novel, this edition includes a fairly good short story and a slightly self-congratulatory afterword in which Estleman calls this one of his best books.

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