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Death Claims: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 2
Joseph Hansen
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Description for Death Claims: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 2
Paperback. Newly available in print, Joseph Hansen's classic mystery series starring Dave Brandstetter, a gay private eye in 70s and 80s California. Series: Dave Brandstetter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
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 that night. And why... Death Claims ... Read more
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 that night. And why... Death Claims ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Dave Brandstetter
Condition
New
Weight
166g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444784497
SKU
V9781444784497
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Ref
99-10
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Death Claims: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 2
An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence
New Yorker
Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler
Herald Examiner
An exceptionally urbane literary style
New York Times Book Review
Hansen is ... Read more
New Yorker
Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler
Herald Examiner
An exceptionally urbane literary style
New York Times Book Review
Hansen is ... Read more