Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction.

[1] Estleman graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1974 with a BA in English and journalism.

[1] Other series center on Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin.

see also under Contributions to collections, below see also under Contributions to collections, below The Detroit series sets out "to tell the story of America in the twentieth century through the microcosm of Detroit, the one city whose history mirrors precisely the history of the United States of America".

[5] Given its historical fiction nature, the series is often given "in order of chronology rather than date of publication: Thunder City (1900–1910); Whiskey River (1928–1939); Jitterbug (1943); Edsel (1951–1959); Motown (1966); Stress (1973); and King of the Corner (1990)".