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Plot / Content: Rating: G The first Dave Brandstetter novel "Fox Olsen, loving father, devoted husband, folk singer, broadcaster and hero of his wife's home town, has drowned. His white convertible lies smashed in a creek; there could have been no escape from death in the swollen flood waters. But insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter is not so sure ... "Brandstetter works hard, lives hard, but he is vulnerable too. He tackles his case at full steam, but carries with him the enormous grief and emptiness which follows when a man loses his life partner - his was an interior decorator called Rod, a laughing boy-man whose death leaves Brandstetter restless, disturbed and bitter." (from the cover) Background / Biography:
Reviews: "A new name that is plainly going to be one of the ones to rely on in the years ahead, and a new detective, one Dave Brandstetter, a homosexual without hysteria . . . (Hansen) knows how to tell a story, very well indeed. His is a classic uncovering-pursuit tale. The name of Ross Macdonald springs to mind: Hansen writes every bit as well. In Joseph Hansen we have a recruit to crime who seems to have started in the rank of Detective Superintendent." H R F Keating, Times (London) (from the cover of later paperback edition) "I read it in two gulps, and I can cheerfully announce that here is certainly a book destined to be one of the outstanding mysteries of the year. It is shcoking, absorbing and masterfully written." Stanley Ellin (from the cover of later paperback edition) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Fog shrouded the canyon, a box canyon above a California ranch town called Pima. It rained. Not hard but steady and gray and dismal. Shaggy pines loomed through the mist like threats. Sycamores made white, twisted gestures above the arroyo. Down the arroyo water pounded, ugly, angry and deep. The road shouldered the arroyo. It was a bad road. The rains had chewed its edges. There were holes. Mud and rock half buried it in places. It was steep and winding and there were no guard rails." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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