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This is a welcome reissue of Joseph Hansen’s pioneering mystery series starring Dave Brandstetter, a gay private eye in 70s and 80s California. Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlow, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he is tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it, but unlike them, he is gay.
John Oats is dead: drowned in the treacherous waves of the Pacific. He was in great pain, and reliant on morphine; it could easily have been accident or suicide. But with thousands of dollars in insurance money at stake, Dave Brandstetter thinks it was murder. And between the mysteriously absent son, the bitter ex-wife and the current lover, there are plenty of people with reason to lie to Dave about what really happened that night.
Author: Joseph Hansen
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published May 2015