Joseph Hansen

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Fadeout by Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter series of detective novels spanned 21 years and 12 books, earning him the 1992 Lifetime Achievment Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Fadeout, the first of his novels, published in 1970, introduces the character of Dave Brandstetter, a hard-boiled insurance investigator, who doesn't believe that a folksinger whose car was found smashed in an arroyo is really dead. What makes the Brandstetter series even more remarkable-apart from the exceptional writing, which earned Hansen comparisons to Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler-is that Dave Brandstetter was openly, comfortably, and thoroughly unstereotypically gay. In 1999 this is notable; in 1970 it was extraordinary. Alyson is pleased to reintroduce this landmark, groundbreaking series, long out of print, to a new audience.

About the Author
Joseph Hansen is the author of more than 25 novels and is a renowned short story writer. The winner of the 1992 lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America, Hansen is also the author of A Smile in his Lifetime, Living Upstairs, Job's Year, and Bohannon's Country.

Death Claims by Joseph Hansen

This second book in Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Dave Brandstetter mystery series find's Dave sifting through the elaborate lies surrounding the murder of John Oats, who's drugged body was found washed up on the beach. Left behind are April Stannard, John's lover, and his son Peter, who was the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. The trouble is, Peter is missing. Joseph Hansen's Dave Brandstetter series of detective novels spanned 21 years and 12 books, earning him the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers by Philip Gambone (Editor), Robert Giard (Photographer)

In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. No one though, until Philip Gambone, has attempted to offer a collective portrait of our most important gay writers. This collection of interviews attempts just that, and is notable both for the depth of Gambone's probing conversations and for the sheer range of important authors included. Virtually every prominent gay author writing in English today is here, from David Leavitt and Edmund White to Michael Cunningham, Andrew Holleran, and Paul Monette.

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Snowfall 

by Joseph Hansen

Excerpt:

Roy Creighton raked the yard. All along the street great maples had scattered their red and golden leaves across dying lawns. At the end of the block the ancient elms of Bryant College had blanketed the campus with brown. The smoke of bonfires was pungent in the evening air.

Creighton paused and leaned on the rake, a little weary, breathing the tang of the burning leaves and smiling to himself. This was the time of year he loved best - summer spent, with its rank greens, its humid heat, its raspy insect hum - the return of crispness to the air, and with it the excitement of a new term's beginning...

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