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Cargando... Death Claims (1973)por Joseph Hansen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Loving this series! Echoes of Raymond Chandler, without being a pastiche. ( ) Dave Brandstetter returns, this time to investigate the drowning of a man with a large life insurance policy. The police ruled the death and accident, but Brandstetter disagrees. Like the first book in the series, this one is remarkable for its frank discussion of homosexuality. Aside from that, it's a pretty average mystery. I'm on a bit of a Joseph Hansen/Dave Brandstetter binge right now. Hanson's a wonderful writer with a good ear for dialogue and a sense of which details will set a scene appropriately. Brandstetter, Hansen's central character and a death claims investigator for an insurance company, is equally wonderful. He's a gay man living in the 60s/70s, surprisingly honest about who he is, cultured, articulate, brusque, and far too sharp for anyone around him engaged in nefarious activities to have any chance of getting away with something. These mystery novels are great reads in their own right. They're also stand-outs because of their central character. Getting the reading public to embrace a character like Brandstetter may not seem like a major accomplishment these days, but this series was first published beginning 50 years ago. A great mystery and a lesson in a crucial moment in the development of the genre—what more can a reader ask for? I received a free electronic review copy of this title from the publisher via Edelweiss+; the opinions are my own. Pertenece a las seriesContenido enListas de sobresalientes
"Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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