Nightwork
FictionDave Brandstetter (Fictitious character)Gay menInsurance investigatorsCalifornia fiction
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**From Goodreads:** ***Book #7 in the Dave Brandstetter series*** In a remote spot outside L.A, a giant truck suddenly plunges in flames off a mountain road at midnight. It looks like an accident, but it isn't. Someone had fastened a bomb under the truck, killing owner-driver, Paul Myers who was insured for $100,000. Crack insurance investigator, Dave Brandsetter is called in to find out what happened and why. Why was Myers hauling in that secluded spot at that hour and for whom? No one wants to answer Dave's questions but then another trucker's death arouses suspicions and a pattern begins to emerge.
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FictionDave Brandstetter (Fictitious character)Gay menInsurance investigatorsCalifornia fictionPrivate investigators
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California
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Joseph Hansen
19 July 1923 – 24 November 2004
Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet. Although he published almost forty books in a wide variety of genres, Hansen is best remembered for his ground breaking series of crime novels starring his most iconic creation, Dave Brandstetter, an openly homosexual private eye who still embodied the tough, no-nonsense personality of the classic hardboiled protagonist. His first adventure, *Fadeout*, was published in 1970, and over the next twenty-one years eleven more entries in the series were written. Hansen published his first work, a poem, in *The New Yorker*, in 1952. He also published poetry in other magazines, briefly sang with a folk-music-group on a California radio-station,…
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