Wow!!! was für ein dickes Buch '!!!! Über 600 Seiten!!! 32 Kurzgeschichten mit dem in Detroit lebenden Privatdetektiv Amos Walker. 10 sind davon bei Ullstein auf Deutsch erschienen. Im Band "Zehn für Detroit". Mehr gab es leider nicht. Dieses Buch (gebunden) ist 2010 erschienen. Ich bin eindeutig im falschen Land geboren.
Hard-boiled Detroit private investigator Amos Walker debuted 30 years ago in the novel Motor City Blue (1980). The series has earned Estleman four Shamus Awards, and two entries in the series were New York Times Notable Books selections. The 32 stories in the collection range from standard missing-person cases, to a bizarre investigation that hinges on a tattoo, to a few in which Walker ventures outside his black-and-white hometown to the greener but sometimes more deadly Michigan countryside. In the latter category is “Cigarette Stop” in which deadly trouble follows Walker after he makes a simple stop for a pack of smokes. Walker investigates a possible suicide in “Major Crimes” for an insurance company looking to avoid a large life insurance payout. Even Walker’s cynicism is tested when everyone involved in the case—including the insurance company—is complicit in the victim’s death. Walker has a built-in audience of devoted fans; new readers who check out this sampler will be pleased to know they have 30 years of fine novels waiting for them. --Wes Lukowsky
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