![]() revival courtesy of Alyson Publications, although many more are currently in print by No Exit Press, available on Amazon's U.K. The Brandstetter series has acquired something of a cult following over the 30 years that Hansen developed it ( Death Claims is the second title in its U.S. ![]() If this Corvette-cool, drumskin-taut policier leaves you marveling at its incorporation of a totally rugged, sexy, openly gay sleuth into a style and milieu that reads deliciously like Chandler, Hemingway, and Jacqueline Susann all in bed together, then get this: Hansen wrote it not at the turn of this century-which has gay characters popping up in books and movies and on TV in all sorts of stereotype-busting ways-but, remarkably, in the 70s! Indeed, it was the second in what became Hansen's series of Southern California-set whodunits featuring insurance-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is not without his own lost loves and private demons-and yet never without his cigarette, glass of whiskey (neat, of course), and enough terse, manly stoicism to make Steve McQueen look like Richard Simmons. ![]()
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