Joseph Hansen

A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Fadeout

"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd and deeply felt, Fadeout remains as fresh today as when it startled readers more than thirty years ago.

Troublemaker

Police Chief Ben Orton had a gift for making enemies. When his body was found, head smashed in, the people of his seaside domain were shocked--less because of the gruesome murder than because someone had finally dared to cross Ben Orton.

The man everybody was afraid of

A weary Brandstetter becomes embroiled in a case of abuse, drugs, AIDS, and murder while confronting an intuition that his own time is running out

The Last Dave Brandstetter Mystery

A Country of Old Men

A runaway girl leads Dave Brandstetter to confront a California sex cult Serenity ran away from home when her father was convicted of bribery. For two years, she drifted around the American Southwest, finally finding refuge in the arms of Azrael, a charismatic cult leader whose religion was founded upon blood. Long after Serenity's disappearance, the police find a mass grave containing six dead girls on Azrael's property. Thinking his daughter has been murdered, Serenity's father claims her life insurance, and promptly disappears. Now it's Dave Brandstetter's problem. An insurance investigator with a keen eye and a skeptical mind, Dave is no stranger to savagery. But his trip to the high-priced suburbs of Los Angeles will teach him something new about the depths of human cruelty--and Azrael's mass grave is only the beginning. "Gravedigger "is book six in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes "Troublemaker "and "The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of."

Gravedigger

Rheinische Akten zur Geschichte des Jesuitenordens, 1542-1582

Mary-Alice Waters

Evelyn Reed

How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation."A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression."Ms.Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

Michael Nava

After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The Times Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay. Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald. In Fadeout, Dave is sent to investigate the death of radio personality Fox Olsen. His car is found crashed in a dry river bed. But there is no body - and as Dave looks deeper into his life, it seems as though he had good reasons to disappear.

Dave Brandstetter Investigation 1

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTER With a new Introduction by Michael Nava. Published fifty years ago, a time when being gay was illegal in 49 out of 50 states, Joseph Hansen’s first Dave Brandstetter novel shattered stereotypes and redefined the Private Eye novel as we know it. Five decades after its original landmark publication, Joseph Hansen’s Fadeout is as fresh and important as ever. Preceded only by a handful of gay protagonists in crime fiction, Hansen’s Dave Brandstetter, a ruggedly handsome World War II vet with a quick wit, faultless moral compass, and endless confidence, shattered stereotypes and won over a large reading audience, a feat previously considered impossible for queer fiction. Set in the mid-1960s, Fadeout centers on the disappearance of a southern California radio personalitynamed Fox Olson. A failed writer, Olson finally found success as a beloved folksinger and wholesome country raconteur with a growing national audience. The community is therefore shocked when Olson’s car is found wrecked, having been driven off a bridge and swept away in a fast-moving arroyo on a rainy night. A life insurance claim is filed by Olson’s widow and the company holding the policy sends their best man to investigate. The problem is that Olson’s body was never found. Not in the car. Not further down the river. As Dave Brandstetter begins his investigation he quickly finds that none of it adds up.

Die Chroniken der westfälischen und niederrheinischen Städte ...: Bd. Soest: I. Kriegstagebuch der Soester Fehde. 1414-1447.-II. Lippstädter Reimchronik der Soester Fehde. 1435-1449.-III. Werler Reimchronik der Soester Fehde. 1433-1449.-IV. Lieder.-V. Beilagen. 1889

und die Entstehung der grossen Hexenverfolgung

Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter

Gerald Ross Dawson est mort, la nuque brisée. Paroissien modèle de l'église des Chrétiens du Renouveau, il irait directement au Ciel, laissant derrière lui quelques fanatiques, un fils et une épouse éplorés, ainsi qu'une prime de cinquante mille dollars, si Dave Brandstetter n'était pas là. Chargé par sa compagnie d'assurances d'enquêter sur le décès, Dave ne se satisfait pas de la version officielle : Lon Tooker, gérant d'un sex-shop mis à sac par le groupe de Dawson, constitue pour la police un coupable trop idéal. Soulevant le voile d'une vie bien puritaine, Brandstetter plongé dans les coulisses de l'enfer hollywoodien... Sous l'écrasant soleil de Californie, Joseph Hansen entraîne le lecteur derrière les décors en carton-pâte du paradis californien...

A fleur de peau

Quellen zur Geschichte des Rheinlandes im Zeitalter der französischen Revolution, 1780-1801: bd. 1794-1797. 1935

Stephan Laux

Quellen zur Geschichte des Rheinlandes im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution, 1780-1801: 1794-1797

Love and money are the easy motives in the death of a California beachfront nightclub owner, but death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter is certain of one thing: the case is going to be far from easy and the police have it all wrong. Rick Wendell wouldn't hurt a flea. The big, jovial owner of the Hang Ten, a surfing-themed gay bay on the boardwalk, was loved by regulars and new arrivals alike. But Rick was found naked and dead, with a local hustler named Larry Johns standing over him, smoking gun in hand. Wendell's death is ruled as a homicide and Johns is arrested. Everyone thinks it's a simple open-and-shut case. Everyone except the death claims investigator, Dave Brandstetter. Brandstetter, a homosexual himself, doesn't make the same assumptions about the crime scene and easy story it tells. Larry Johns had enough time to escape had he wanted to. Not to mention Johns lacked any discernable motive, especially since the $200 in Wendell's wallet was left untouched. In an investigation that takes him from sun-scorched hillside ranches to seedy boardwalk bars, Brandstetter gets to the bottom of a twisty mystery in this hardboiled and entertaining portrait of the '70s gay culture by groundbreaking poet and award-winning crime writer Joseph Hansen.

Karl Lamprecht

Theodor Ilgen

Auf veranlassung seiner majestät des königs von bayern

Die Chroniken der westfälischen und niederrheinischen städte

"Scorned by his family, defeated by society, no matter how hard Steve tried it seemed as if everything he did was wrong. His marriage had gone sour, his hopes as a playwright upset; his lover had seduced his wife and betrayed him. Confused and friendless, Steve turned to pretty boy Coy Randol for love and comfort. But then Coy was found brutally murdered-there was only one person the police supstected: Steve"--Back cover

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