Joseph Hansen, Author Foul Play Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88150-103-2
Selected from previously published stories, the five mysteries in Hansen's collection are ingenious but quite different from his novels about the gay private eye, Brandstetter. Here the chief character is retired sheriff Hank Bohannon, owner-manager
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Joseph Hansen, Author Henry Holt & Company $0 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0083-2
This is the eighth novel by Joseph Hansen (Death Claims featuring independently wealthy, cultivated, fearlessand gayinsurance claims-death investigator Dave Brandstetter. His private life is low key and strictly background, and the intricate story...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Mysterious Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-296-9
Some of L.A.'s sleaziest characters come to life on the pages of Hansen's taut novel, where Dave Brandstetter makes his 10th appearance as a now-aging private-eye. With a few tricks still in his bag, Brandstetter proves a formidable investigator...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Viking Books $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-83324-5
For mystery readers mysteriously unacquainted with Hansen's Dave Brandstetter, this will be a good introduction. Brandstetter, officially retired as a private eye, accedes to his lover Cecil's request to investigate the death of Vaughn Thomas, a co-w
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Joseph Hansen, Author Dutton Books $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-93682-4
Author of 25 novels, including the Dave Brandstetter mysteries, and winner of the 1992 lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America, Hansen here offers an affecting, atmospheric coming-of-age tale set in the seedy bohemian...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Plume Books $5.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-452-26617-9
In this combination of mystery and gay fiction, a retired private eye investigates a ``combat pursuit'' game in which a player was felled by a real bullet; additional murders and a right-wing paramilitary group complicate matters. ``For mystery...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-83826-4
Fans of Hansen's spare style and wit, refined in the 11 titles from Fadeout to The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning , will mourn if this bears out its subtitle, The Last Dave Brandstetter Mystery . Ex-insurance claims investigator Brandstetter, in...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Viking Books $19 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-84942-0
In five new short stories, Hansen is in top form, delighting readers with surprising, often risk-taking, fiction. This will be no surprise to followers of the acclaimed Dave Brandstetter series (Brandstetter was one of the first gay PI heroes),...
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Joseph Hansen, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-93924-5
Readers who became acquainted with Nathan Reed in Living Upstairs will be pleased to encounter him again in this new work, set in California in 1941, two years prior to the events in the previous novel. The gay would-be writer is here 17-and in his...
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