Death Claims
Dave Brandstetter Investigation 2
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2015
Summary
John Oats is dead: drowned in the treacherous waves of the Pacific. He was in great pain, and reliant on morphine; it could easily have been accident or suicide.
But with thousands of dollars in insurance at stake, on a policy which the dead man had meant to change the day he died, Dave Brandstetter thinks it was murder. And between the mysteriously absent son, the bitter ex-wife and the current lover, there are plenty of people with reason to lie to Dave about what really happened th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444784497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444784498 |
| Author: | Joseph Hansen |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 134mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Dave Brandstetter |
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The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today
The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today - LA Times
Hansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school…writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald - Washington PostIn Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity - Chicago Sun-TimesNo mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles - TimeHansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real - Boston GlobeAn exceptionally urbane literary style - New York Times Book ReviewHansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler - Herald ExaminerAn excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence - New YorkerAbout The Author
Joseph Hansen
Joseph Hansen wrote nearly forty novels in the course of a long career, but is best known for the groundbreaking series of twelve Dave Brandstetter crime novels. Brandstetter was a pioneering character: a tough private eye and happily uncloseted gay man. Hansen was an active campaigner for equal rights (though he disliked the word ‘gay’ and always described himself as ‘homosexual’). He founded the pioneering gay journal Tangents in 1965, hosted a radio show called Homosexuality Today, and was involved in setting up the first Gay Pride parade in Hollywood in 1970, the same year that the first Brandstetter novel was published. In 1992, he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. He died in 2004.
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