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1 review
Joseph Hansen

Five Star Trade, 2003

Bohannon's Women
This is the last of the three "Bohannon"-Books, collections of short stories about private investigator / rancher Hack Bohannon. In my opinnion it's the best of the three. The stories have more dynamic than the earlier ones and the author finally settled on concentrating on the crime and not reflecting so much about his heroe's doomed marriage. There's suspense and humour and Hansen shows once ...

Death Claims (Dave Brandstetter Mysteries)

2 reviews
Joseph Hansen

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Hard Boiled Gay Detective from 1973
Sub-Title: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery This is the second of the Dave Brandstetter novels to be reprinted. Dave was the "first and most venerable gay detective" a real shocker thirty years ago. Dave also didn't fit the image if a gay man. He was good sized and a hard boiled detective, just like the other heros of the day. All in all there were twelve Dave brandstetter mysteries. The first, ...

Jack of Hearts

1 review
Joseph Hansen

Dutton Adult, 1995

A cut above the average coming of age tale
I'm not big on mystery stories, so I've never bothered with Hansen's Brandstetter series. But in crafting Jack of Hearts, Hansen is responsible for one of the best coming-of-age tales of a gay youth. The writing is first-rate, with a well-developed central character and story line. The realism of Nathan Reed makes him the kind of reluctant hero most authors unsuccessfully strive to create. I've ...

Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

10 reviews
Joseph Hansen

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

More than just a Gay Detective Novel, A Good Novel
Can you imagine the impact of a gay tough guy detective in 1972, that was thirteen years before Rock Hudson. Indeed, can you imagine a gay tough guy detective even today with all the attacks on Sponge Bob and and other stupidities. But it's true. In 1972 Joseph Hansen published the first of what would grow to twenty five novels, twelve of which featured Dave Brandstetter the openly, ...

J0rn Utzon: The Architect's Universe
Merte Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Michael Andersen, ...

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2008

J0rn Utzon is a Danish architect, yet he has become indelibly identified with Sydney, Australia, because of his landmark design for the Sydney Opera House. This catalogue for the first major retrospective of his work shows the scope of a career that has stretched almost 50 years, from his own Hellebaek house (1952) to Can Feliz on Majorca (1994). The essence of Utzon's architecture is a fusion of form and structure--or to put it differently, the ...

Troublemaker: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery (Dave Brandstetter Mysteries)

1 review
Joseph Hansen

Alyson Books, 2002

Who Done It
"Who killed gay bar owner and all-around nice guy Rick Wendell? Was it Larry Johns, the attractive young man found wiping his prints off the still smoking gun mere moments after the murder? If so, why was Johns naked? And what happened to the large sum of money Wendell had just withdrawn from the bar's bank account? Hard-boiled, openly gay insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter aims to ...

The Complete Brandstetter
Joseph Hansen

No Exit Press, 2007

The man everybody was afraid of (A Rinehart suspense novel)

4 reviews
Joseph Hansen

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978

Good, not great, Brandstetter
The fourth entry in Hansen's Brandstetter series finds Dave investigating the murder of a small town sheriff,Ben Orton, hated by many and feared by all. On the face of it, it appears rabid gay activist Cliff Kurlee is responsible for Orton's death, but Brandstetter's continuing probe leads him to other ideas. This isn't as compelling as the four previous books in the series, but compared to the ...

A Country of Old Men (Plume)

2 reviews
Joseph Hansen

Plume, 1992

Not a happy ending, but a good one
Nobody likes to see the last book in a series of books as great a Hansen's "Brandstetter"-series. It's sad. Especially because of the fact that Dave really is a well constructed character that one grows to like over the years. But everything has to end someday and I think Hansen did a pretty good job. It's not the ending one would suspect. It's logical and convincing. And it's part of a very ...

Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: A Marxist Appreciation

1 review
Joseph Hansen

Pathfinder Press (NY), 1994

A NECESSARY BOOK FOR ANY REVOLUTIONARY!!!
"How did the Cuban revolution come about? Why does it represent, as Joseph Hansen put it, an 'unbearable challenge' to U.S. imperialism? What are the political challenges it has confronted? Why are the lessons of this living revolution of decisive and lasting importance for workers and farmers around the world? "For over three decades the revolution that opened the socialist revolution in ...

What Is American Fascism?
James P. Cannon, Joseph Hansen

Pathfinder Press (NY), 1992

Death Claims

2 reviews
Joseph Hansen

Alyson Books, 2001

Excellent whodunit
Bookseller John Oats has been found dead in the Pacific Ocean. The death has been ruled accidental, perhaps suicide. This explanation doesn't satisfy insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter. He comes to believe Oats was murdered for his considerable policy and sets out to find the culprit. Whodunit? Oats's elusive son? The closeted, all-American TV star? A washed up ...

Nightwork (A Dave Brandstetter Mystery)

4 reviews
Joseph Hansen

Owen, Peter Publishing, 1984

Nightwork
"Nightwork" is the seventh Dave Brandstetter mystery by Joseph Hansen. The series is set in and around Los Angeles. Dave, a death-claims investigator is looking into the death of Paul Meyers, a truck driver. Someone placed a bomb under the truck and it blew up with him one night. Dave learns that Meyers had been doing nightwork to make extra money. Who killed Paul Meyers? Was it Silencio Ruiz, a ...

Pretty Boy Dead: A Novel

2 reviews
Joseph Hansen

Gay Sunshine Press, 1984

HANSEN IS, AS HANSEN DOES.
I love this book. Originally published as KNOWN HOMOSEXUAL, then STRANGER TO HIMSELF, PRETTY BOY DEAD was Hansen's first mystery novel, written under the pseudonym of James Colton. This is everything a mystery novel should be. Briefly, this is the story of Steve who is young, bright and black. Steve's family has all but disowned him, in part due to his marriage (now cracking apart), and partly ...

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