The Complete Brandstetter: All 12 Novels in the Dave Brandstetter Series

About this book

Joseph Hansens highly successful mystery series which kicked off in 1970 with the publication of "Fadeout" featured one of the genres first openly homosexual investigators Dave Brandstetter. Like other fictional sleuths such as Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe or Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer Hansens middle-aged protagonist is tough smart and self-assured. My joke Hansen said was to take the true hard-boiled character in the American fiction tradition and make him homosexual. He was going to be a nice man a good man and he was doing to do his job well. Hansens series which continued until 1991 with "A Country Of Old Men" was set in an evocative 70s and 80s Southern California particularly Los Angeles for which he received high praise. "The LA Times" said Hansen had presented Brandstetters loves jealousies and betrayals with both candour and discretion...and never-exploitive honesty. Throughout the course of the series Brandstetter ages physically and grows emotionally as he comes to terms with the turmoil of his personal relationships. Now all 12 Dave Brandstetter novels are brought together in one volume: "The Complete Brandstetter".