Loren D. Estleman - Valentino 03 - Alive! (30 page)

Downriver

Silent Thunder

Sweet Women Lie

Never Street

The Witchfinder

The Hours of the Virgin

A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

Sinister Heights

Poison Blonde
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Retro
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Nicotine Kiss
*

American Detective
*

The Left-Handed Dollar
*

Infernal Angels
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Burning Midnight
*

VALENTINO, FILM DETECTIVE

Frames
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Alone
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Alive!
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DETROIT CRIME

Whiskey River

Motown

King of the Corner

Edsel

Stress

Jitterbug
*

Thunder City
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PETER MACKLIN

Kill Zone

Roses Are Dead

Any Man’s Death

Something Borrowed, Something Black
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Little Black Dress
*

OTHER FICTION

The Oklahoma Punk

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes

Peeper

Gas City
*

Journey of the Dead
*

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association
*

Roy & Lillie: A Love Story
*

The Confessions of A1 Capone
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(June 2013)

PAGE MURDOCK SERIES

The High Rocks
*

Stamping Ground
*

Murdock’s Law
*

The Stranglers

City of Widows
*

White Desert
*

Port Hazard
*

The Book of Murdock
*

WESTERNS

The Hider

Aces & Eights
*

The Wolfer

Mister St. John

This Old Bill

Gun Man

Bloody Season

Sudden Country

Billy Gashade
*

The Master Executioner
*

Black Powder, White Smoke
*

The Undertaker’s Wife
*

The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion
*

The Branch and the Scaffold
*

NONFICTION

The Wister Trace

Writing the Popular Novel

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Published by Tom Doherty Associates

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Loren D. Estleman has written more than sixty novels. He has netted four Shamus Awards for detective fiction, five Spur Awards for Western Fiction, and three Western Heritage Awards. The Western Writers of America recently conferred upon Estleman the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contribution to Western Literature.
Alive!
is the third Valentino film detective mystery. He lives with his wife, author Deborah Morgan, in Michigan.

Learn more at
www.lorenestleman.com
.

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.

ALIVE!

Copyright © 2013 by Loren D. Estleman

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Michael Koelsch

Edited by James Frenkel

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

Estleman, Loren D.

Alive! / Loren D. Estleman.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-3331-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-0064-9 (e-book)

1.  Archivists—Fiction.   2.  Motion picture film—Preservation—Fiction.   3.  Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3555.S84A75 2013

813’.54—dc23

2012042847

e-ISBN 9781466800649

First Edition: April 2013