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Troublemaker: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 3
Joseph Hansen
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Description for Troublemaker: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 3
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: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 148.
'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The Times Rick Wendell never made an enemy in his life, but he died all the same; and Larry Johns was found standing over him with the gun in his hand still smoking. But Dave Brandstetter, who doesn't share the police's prejudice about Wendell's lifestyle, can't see it as an open-and-shut case. What was Johns' motive? What happened to the cash Wendell withdrew that day? As he asks the questions no one wants to hear, he comes to realise the danger of assumptions - particularly ... Read more
'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The Times Rick Wendell never made an enemy in his life, but he died all the same; and Larry Johns was found standing over him with the gun in his hand still smoking. But Dave Brandstetter, who doesn't share the police's prejudice about Wendell's lifestyle, can't see it as an open-and-shut case. What was Johns' motive? What happened to the cash Wendell withdrew that day? As he asks the questions no one wants to hear, he comes to realise the danger of assumptions - particularly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Dave Brandstetter
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444784510
SKU
V9781444784510
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
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 Troublemaker: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 3
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