Troublemaker: A Dave Brandstetter mystery - Softcover

Hansen, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0030574870 ISBN 13: 9780030574870

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981

Synopsis

The third volume in the award-winning, groundbreaking Dave Brandstetter mystery series finds Dave investigating the murder of the owner of a local gay bar. Appearances suggest that the only witness is also the killer, but he swears he's innocent. Trouble is, he may be telling the truth.

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

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

The Brandstetter books are classics of the private eye genre...it's great to see them available again -- Peter Robinson Incredible books, much overlooked -- Jeff Abbott, author of PANIC The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today LA Times Hansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school...writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald Washington Post In Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity Chicago Sun-Times No mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles Time Hansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real Boston Globe An exceptionally urbane literary style New York Times Book Review Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler Herald Examiner An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0030574870
• ISBN 13: 9780030574870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 155