| Lady Yesterday (The Amos Walker Series #7) |  | Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1520674
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 194
ISBN: 039541072X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780395410721
ASIN: 039541072X
Publication Date: April 1987
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Tracking down a runaway wife is run of the mill. That's yesterday's blues. But finding the trombonist father of black, beautiful, reformed hooker Iris threatens to blow up into the case of a lifetime. The trail Amos Walker follows through Detroit's smoky music clubs leads him to dens of hard crime and harder drugs -- where Iris and Amos will be lucky to escape with their lives, much less the truth about a past packed with menacing secrets. And that's no jazz.
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 Not up to his usual class September 9, 2008
An Amos Walker Mystery. A flat effort, which the author calls "one of his best" in a self-serving afterward. Kind of offputting, but then it is followed by a short story which is far better than the and worthy of the class he belongs to (Hammett and Chandler).
 Another winner for Amos Walker April 25, 2001
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"Lady Yesterday" is the 7th novel in the superb Amos Walker private detective series. Once again, our wise cracking and world weary hero prowls the streets of his native Detroit with moves as fast as his wit. In this outing, Walker's favorite femme fatale, the recovering hooker Iris (first introduced in the series debut, "Motor City Blue"), is back in town and Walker cannot resist doing her a favor by trying to find the father she never knew. Along the way he explores Detroit's fading jazz scene and butts heads with an assortment of lowlifes and mobsters. He also finds to his dismay that his only ally in the police department, his old friend homicide Detective John Alderdyce, is on an extended leave of absence suffering from burnout. "Lady Yesterday" is another excellent entry into this fine series. Walker novels ready like latter day Phillip Marlowe and his cases always take unexpected twists. This one isn't the best of the series (that would be "Sugartown" or "The Glass Highway") because it relies a little too heavilly on some of the elements of past entries. Nevertheless, it is still a very good read.
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