Fiction of Gay Interest

Skinflick
Joseph Hansen
Publisher: Faber and Faber
London, UK

Year


 		1980 1st UK edition       first publ USA: 1979
Cover / size: hardback, h 20.4 cm * w 13.5 cm / 194 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: 0571115454

Arbery Ref:   000985

Condition Very Good

Jacket (in mylar cover): very slight wear to edges. Boards (black with silver lettering): very slight bumping to edges. Page edges: top dusty. Front endpaper has erased pencil inscriptions. Pre-title page has stain (appears to be printing error). Pages beginning to yellow but otherwise clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Gerald Dawson was an angry little man who set out to change a world he feared and hated, and ended up murdered. The police are sure they've got the killer - the owner of a porno shop. But Dave Brandstetter, crack insurance investigator, won't but it. Where had Dawson been all night and what is scaring Dawson's wife and son? Why is Dawson's business parnert in such a panic to get rid of his files? Who is the young bearded stranger Dawson fought with the in church car park? If Dawson was a born-again Christian, whose were the porno magazines Dawson's son so frantically tried to burn? "

(from the jacket)



Background / Biography:

Joseph Hansen (19 July 1923 - 24 November 2004) was a prolific writer best known for a series of novels starring his most iconic creation, gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter.

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