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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- book
- Type
- book
- Intended Audience
- General/trade
- ISBN
- 9781681990521
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
SOHO Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1681990520
ISBN-13
9781681990521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050100107
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Everybody Was Afraid of
Number of Pages
169 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Lgbt / Gay, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Lgbt / General
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-285321
Reviews
Praise for the Dave Brandstetter Novels "Joseph Hansen is not only one of America's best mystery writers, he is a great American writer. Period. Full stop." --Michael Nava "Incredible books, much overlooked." --Jeff Abbott "The Brandstetter books are classics of the private eye genre... It's great to see them available again." --Peter Robinson "First published over fifty years ago now, Hansen's novels are not just clever and compelling stories, but to my mind they are also a feat of incredible bravery. I wish I'd discovered him sooner." --Russ Thomas, CrimeReads "Hansen is one of the best we have... [He] knows how to tell a tough, unsentimental, fast-moving story in an exceptionally urbane literary style." -- New York Times Book Revie w "After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor." --The Times (London) "Mr. Hansen is an excellent craftsman, a compelling writer." --The New Yorker "Apart from its virtues as fiction, Hansen's Early Graves is a field correspondent's breathtaking dispatch from a community in the midst of disaster." --Time "Read in the order written, [the Brandstetter mysteries] are remarkably linked through symbol, incident, and character, to the point that one sees them as a single, multi-volume novel, by which one may learn a great deal about what it means to be homosexual and male in modern America." --The New Republic "Hansen is quite simply the most exciting and effective writer of the classic California private-eye novel working today." --Los Angeles Times "No one in the history of the detective novel has had the daring to do what Joseph Hansen has done: make his private eye a homosexual...who is both a first-rate investigator and one of the most interest series characters in the history of the genre." --David Geherin, The American Private Eye "The first thing I ever read by Joseph Hansen was Fadeout (1970). It's the seminal novel in a mystery series about a smart, tough, uncompromising insurance investigator by the name of David Brandstetter. He is a Korean War vet and ruggedly masculine. He's educated, principled, compassionate -- but willing and able to use violence when nothing else works. He represents the (then) new breed of PI -- the post-World War II private investigator. There are no bottles of rye in Dave's desk, there are no sleazy secrets in his past, and the dames don't much tend to throw themselves at him. He is neither tarnished nor afraid. Oh, and one other thing. He's gay.... He was not the first gay detective to hit mainstream crime fiction, but he was the first normal gay detective, and that -- as the poet said -- has made all the difference." --Josh Lanyon, from The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
TitleLeading
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Series Volume Number
4
Synopsis
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTER The murder of a conservative police chief in a fishing village north of Los Angeles sends death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter into the no-man's land between cops and activists in this brilliantly plotted mystery, which perfectly captures California in the mid-1970s. A small-town Chief of Police with reactionary politics and national ambitions, Ben Orton struck fear in the hearts of anyone who fell out of line in his little fiefdom of La Caleta. Most recently that has included gay rights activists pushing for the hiring of a police officer from their community. When big Ben is found in his backyard bludgeoned to death by a large terracotta pot, the police arrest the outspoken gay owner of a local nursery. Orton had a life insurance policy that brings death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter north to pry. As far as Dave can tell, the cops did almost nothing to investigate Orton's death and what evidence they did compile doesn't seem to add up. Dave quickly learns that the pool of suspects is much deeper than the police reported. Ben Orton may have seen himself as a pillar of the community but what many in La Caleta saw instead was a violent man whose commitment to enforcement didn't always also include room for the law. With an ailing father in the hospital and a relationship headed toward the rocks, a very distracted Brandstetter finds himself making more wrong moves than right while those on the other side of the thin blue line are making it painfully obvious his presence is not wanted.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.A513M3 2022
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- a***h (25)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book was competitively priced, ordering was easy, the book was well packaged and arrived safely, and its condition was exactly as specified.The delivery time from ordering to mailbox was a little long (14 days), but overall it was a good experience and I would use this seller again.
- n***a (190)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseMy kid really wanted this, and she likes it. I don’t think the value is great, just more HP commercialism. (She paid me and I ordered, btw.) The price from this seller on eBay is less than anywhere else we found. Reviews citing LONG wait between order and receiving the items are correct: give this seller a full 2 weeks to get items to you. The set arrived carefully packaged and pristine. Overall, my daughter is very pleased with the item. If you can be patient, seller offers good value.
- 5***s (625)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem as described, but slow shipping. 18 days for the item to arrive. No padding in packaging, the item arrived a little beat up.