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Pub. Date
1984
Description
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 Brandstetter is called in to find out what happened and why.
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Series
Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1982
Description
Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer, alleges that his runaway teenage daughter has been murdered and he files an insurance claim. And then he disappears, leaving claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to sort through the pieces of the puzzle. Young women have been murdered by the crazed guru of a bizarre sex cult -- is this what happened to Serenity Westover?
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Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
When Adam Streeter's blind, teenage daughter stumbles over his dead body in his expensive marina condominium, she's sure he shot himself. So are the police. But the company that insured his life thinks otherwise, and it sends in crack death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to check out the case
4) Troublemaker
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Series
Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1975]
Description
Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking investigator Dave Brandstetter delves into the suspicious death of a gay entrepreneur.
Rick Wendell's ranch is far from town. A remote, dusty hideaway, its only inhabitants are Rick, his aging mother, and her horses. One night, Rick's mother returns from the movies to find Rick lying on the floor, stark naked and with a gaping bullet wound in his chest. Standing over him is his lover, a mustachioed hippie, who swears...
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Series
Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
A serial killer operating in and around Los Angeles has been killing gay men who have AIDS. P.I. Dave Brandstetter investigates.
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Series
Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
Although on the verge of retirement, Dave Brandstetter takes a final case as a favor to a friend. Vietnamese investor Le Van Minh, owner of the Old Fleet Marina, has just sold it, which means the boat people living there must leave. Dave, who rejects this as motivation for Le's subsequent murder, quickly uncovers evidence of drug smuggling
7) Death claims
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Series
Pub. Date
[1973]
Description
Death Claims is the second in Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mystery series featuring the ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator.
When John Oats' body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats' college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing.
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