Burning Midnight (30 page)

What her interests had been in the Mexicantown business I couldn't guess and didn't want to know. What I wanted was to get drunk: loud, silly drunk, singing and all. But I was out of liquor, and I was glad. Now even more than ever I needed to maintain my edge.

 

B
OOKS BY
L
OREN
D. E
STLEMAN

Kill Zone

Roses Are Dead

Any Man's Death

Motor City Blue

Angel Eyes

The Midnight Man

The Glass Highway

Sugartown

Every Brilliant Eye

Lady Yesterday

Downriver

Silent Thunder

Sweet Women Lie

Never Street

The Witchfinder

The Hours of the Virgin

A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

City of Widows
*

The High Rocks
*

Billy Gashade
*

Stamping Ground
*

Aces & Eights
*

Journey of the Dead
*

Jitterbug
*

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association
*

Thunder City
*

The Master Executioner
*

Black Powder, White Smoke
*

White Desert
*

Sinister Heights

Something Borrowed, Something Black
*

Port Hazard
*

Poison Blonde
*

Retro
*

Little Black Dress
*

Nicotine Kiss
*

The Undertaker's Wife
*

The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion
*

American Detective
*

Gas City
*

Frames
*

The Branch and the Scaffold
*

Alone
*

The Book of Murdock
*

Roy & Lillie: A Love Story
*

The Left-Handed Dollar
*

Infernal Angels
*

Burning Midnight
*

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Loren D. Estleman has written more than sixty novels. He has already netted four Shamus Awards for detective fiction, five Spur Awards for Western fiction, and three Western Heritage Awards, among many professional honors.
Burning Midnight
is the twenty-second Amos Walker mystery. His recent novels include the Valentino mystery
Alone,
the historical novel
Roy & Lillie
about Judge Roy Bean and the famous actress and celebrity Lillie Langtry, and
Infernal Angels,
the twenty-first Amos Walker novel. He lives with his wife, author Deborah Morgan, in Michigan, where he has recently completed
The Confessions of Al Capone,
an epic novel of the iconic American gangster.

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

BURNING MIDNIGHT

Copyright © 2012 by Loren D. Estleman

All rights reserved.

Edited by James Frenkel

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Estleman, Loren D.

   Burning midnight / Loren D. Estleman.—1st ed.

        p. cm.

   “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

   ISBN 978-0-7653-3120-5 (hardcover)

   ISBN 978-1-4299-4864-7 (e-book)

   1.  Walker, Amos (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   2.  Private investigators—Michigan—Detroit—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3555.S84B87 2012

813'.54—dc23

2012009366

e-ISBN 9781429948647

First Edition: June 2012