As featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form. Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new Preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, hitmen, feuding families, prostitutes, prizefighters, bodyguards, corrupt cops, the walking dead, and ordinary people driven by desperation to commit acts of violence.
"An entertaining miscellany of short stories from the past 40 years."
The Wall Street Journal
"Estleman has always favored a vintage style of hard-boiled noir ... from westerns to a vampire tale ... featur[ing] his trademark Detroit setting and tough-guy humor, as well as his durable antihero, the professional hit man Peter Macklin, whose assignment is to take out six targets in 10 days. This being Detroit, automotive references abound, most inventively in the image of a mobster's hair swe
The New York Times
"Virtually all of the stories have a neat, unforeseen twist; Estleman is a master craftsman of the genre and is a creative, compelling writer."
