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- ↑ Publishers Weekly, October 1, 1989. "Review: Peeper". "Estleman, arguably the finest practitioner of hard-boiled private eye fiction with his Amos Walker novels, shifts gears in his latest offering." Retrieved July 1, 2023.
- ↑ "Amos Walker Novels". Macmillan . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
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