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Now working freelance, Dave Brandstetter digs into an evangelist’s secret life
His father’s death left Dave Brandstetter with a hole in his heart and an inheritance in his bank account. The money allowed him to venture out on his own, launching a freelance insurance investigation agency that specializes in suspicious deaths. His first case is potentially explosive, and if he isn’t careful, it could be his last. Crusading evangelist Gerald Dawson believes that piety and violence go hand-in-hand. To clean up his local skid row, he has taken to vigilante justice, ransacking pornography shops and intimidating their owners. When Gerald is found with his neck snapped, the police finger smut peddler Lon Tooker for the crime, but Dave disagrees. As he digs into the holy man’s nighttime activities, he finds a collection of sins that would make even the devil blush. Skinflick is book five in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes Troublemaker and The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of.
- Sales Rank: #261515 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-28
- Released on: 2013-05-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“This book is tough, unsentimental and fast-moving.” —The New York Times “An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer.” —The New Yorker “The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private eye novel working today.” —Los Angeles Times
About the Author
Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was an American author of mysteries. The son of a South Dakota shoemaker, he moved to a California citrus farm with his family in 1936. He began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in the 1950s, and joined the editorial teams of gay magazines ONE and Tangents in the 1960s. Using the pseudonyms Rose Brock and James Colton, Hansen published five novels and a collection of short stories before the appearance of Fadeout (1970), the first novel published under his own name. The book introduced street-smart insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter, a complex, openly gay hero who grew and changed over the series’s twelve novels. By the time Hansen concluded the series with A Country of Old Men (1990), Brandstetter was older, melancholy, and ready for retirement. The 1992 recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Hansen published several more novels before his death in 2004.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
One of Hansen's Most Memorable Titles
By Gary F. Taylor
At one time The Los Angels Times described Joseph Hasen (1923-2004) as "the most exciting and effective writer of the classic California private-eye novel working today." Hansen's best-known works are a series of twelve novels written between 1970 and 1992 that feature insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, a tough, no-nonsense detective--who also happens to be homosexual and is utterly unconcerned about that fact.
All Hansen novels possess a lean, driving prose, meticulously rendered characters, and plots that are a shade too plausible for comfort, and SKINFLICK is among the best. Originally published in 1979, the book finds Brandstetter investigating the death of Gerald Dawson, a holier-than-thou Christian who doesn't stint at delivering "God's Justice" in vigilante style--and who is found with his neck broken in his own drive way.
Pornography store owner Lon Tooker, whose shop was vandalized by Dawson and his cohorts, is the obvious suspect, but Brandstetter has his doubts, and his investigation runs the gamut from pornographers to preachers as he searches for a sixteen year old named Charleen who just might have all the answers. Along the way he receives assistance from a very unlikely source: Randy Van, a sometimes porno performer with a gender-bending style. Hansen's novels are often witty in covert ways, and this may well outrank his other works on that particular score--but its the detective work of this knock-you-flat tough book that keeps the pages turning. Strongly recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A brisk, hardboiled mystery populated by a cast of caricatures
By albarino
This is my first Joseph Hansen mystery and it was published in 1979; I read it as 2015 drew to a close. I’m of an age that can recognize the issues that the author found personally compelling as the ‘70s drew to a close: the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the emergence of a militant religious right, anti-gay legislation in Florida – and as a subtext, the soon-to-expand film-based “poor-gnaw-gru-fee” industry, with video waiting in the wings. The misspelling is deliberate so my review can escape being non-posted for use of the "P" - word.
THE GOOD: Joseph Hansen is an accomplished plotter, moving from one Southern California setting (and into the Central Valley) to the next as he enters the world(s) – people and places – that become the realm in which P.I. Dave Brandstetter will find the culprit and motive for two murders.
Hansen is adept at quickly establishing vivid caricatures of his dramatis personae and they register immediately in the reader’s mind. His various locales – seedy Hollywood, the Sunset Strip, and Marina del Rey – come to life in bold sketchy strokes. If you like the hard-boiled detective genre, Hansen knows how to set the tone and move it along. Personally, my appreciation for hard-boiled mysteries is rather mixed.
THE NOT SO GOOD: This reader came away from the 192 pages not sure he really knew who Dave Brandstetter was. And for me this was a weakness in the book. I want more humanity in my characters and found very little of it to move the needle in the novel’s emotional register. Yes, the dialogue is smart, salty and sardonically witty, but who are the people that speak it? This may mean the reader might not care enough about Brandstetter as the danger to him mounts at the book’s close. It was hard to sympathize with this character, though I wanted to. The way too occasional elements of backstory certainly could be filled in for a more empathetic character.
Further, as the climax unfolds, it does so at a rapid and delirious pace; the reader will find Brandstetter’s capacity to arise from very serious and recent injuries to pursue the killer across 200 miles a straining of credulity. This also contributed to making the ending seem forced and abrupt.
THE UGLY: Fundamentalist Christians are the only religiously-motivated characters in this story, and they are either hypocritical, sexually troubled, or violently psychopathic. At the time of his writing the novel, no doubt the once-closeted Hansen was infuriated by the homophobia of Anita Bryant and her Florida-based activism and the rise of moralizing televangelists like Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart. While his animus is understandable, his penchant for gross caricature doesn't help when he depicts the widow of a murdered preacher as a stern matriarch who grimly lurches about because of a stroke disability. Her murdered husband, a Hollywood movie equipment supplier, vandalized a “poor-gnaw-gru-fee” bookstore as a kind of masked avenger -- all the while being secretly attracted to “nymphets” and child “poor-gnaw-gru-fee”.
In addition, Hansen seems to have a special contempt for attractive straight adolescents and young adults who he routinely portrays as tanned, lithe, promiscuous and empty-headed. The author appears to resent them for wasting their vigorous youth, and therefore they must be callow, undeserving of their "unearned" physical robustness and beauty. Did the middle-aged Hansen - he was 55 when this was published - become a souring queen as he aged? One wonders.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
a competent and different kind of mystery novel..
By lazza
'Skinflick' is my first foray into the world of Joseph Hansen and his Dave Brandstetter series. From the back jacket I expected an L.A.-based crime story with the lead character being an insurance investigator. Yes, I got this. But I didn't realize until I was way into the book that Dave Brandstetter is a gay insurance investigator, a tough guy no less. What I like is the way the author doesn't turn this element of the character into a major element of the story. No stereotypes, nothing cheap or taudry. And the story, about the death of a self-righteous and hypocritical family man, was also quite decent. Enthralling? Well, no. But quite alright, certainly in line with what the more popular authors pump out.
Bottom line: a good read. I look forward to reading other installments of the Dave Brandstetter series.
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