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Joseph Hansen

(1923 - 2004)

Hansen wrote nearly 40 books in a variety of genres, but was best known for his Dave Brandstetter mystery-novels (starting with Fadeout in 1970). Brandstetter lasted for a total of twelve books spanning 21 years and was the first tough, hardboiled, no-nonsense detective who just happened to be homosexual. Hansen also wrote a series of short stories about Hack Bohannon, a combination private eye and horse-ranch-owner in central California.

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction

Series

Dave Brandstetter
   1. Fadeout (1970)
   2. Death Claims (1973)
   3. Troublemaker (1975)
   4. The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (1978)
   5. Skinflick (1979)
   6. Gravedigger (1982)
   7. Nightwork (1984)
   Brandstetter and Others (1984)
   8. The Little Dog Laughed (1986)
   9. Early Graves (1987)
   10. Obedience (1988)
   11. The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning (1990)
   12. A Country Of Old Men (1991)

Nathan Reed
   1. The Jack Of Hearts (1995)
   2. Living Upstairs (1993)
   3. The Cutbank Path (2002)

Novels

   A Smile In His Lifetime (1981)
   Backtrack (1982)
   Job's Year (1983)
   Pretty Boy Dead (1984)
   Steps Going Down (1985)
   A Few Doors West Of Hope (1998)

Collections

   Dog (1979)
   Bohannon's Book (1988)
   Bohannon's Country (1993)
   Ghosts (poems) (1998)
   Bohannon's Women (2002)

Anthologies containing stories by Joseph Hansen

Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Denise Hamilton

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001)
(World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, book 2)
edited by
Ed Gorman and Martin H Greenberg

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
Ed McBain and Otto Penzler

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