Joseph Hansen

Hansen, Joseph

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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, and had several part-time jobs in bookstores and magazines. At the beginning of his career as a novelist, Hansen wrote under the pseudonym James Colton or James Coulton, producing novels such as Strange Marriage and Known Homosexual. He also wrote two gothic novels under the pseudonym Rose Brock. Hansen was also noted for writing poems, teaching workshops, and hosting a 1960s radio-show called Homosexuality Today. In 1970, he helped to found the first Gay Pride Parade in Hollywood. Hansen disliked the term "gay" and always described himself as "homosexual".<sup>1</sup> 1. [Wikipedia][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hansen_(writer)

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Trouble maker
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Death claims
Representative edition published 2015
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Fadeout
Representative edition published 2015
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Fadeout
Representative edition published 2004
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Death claims
Representative edition published 2004
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Bohannon's Women
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Bohannon's women
Representative edition published 2002
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The Cutbank Path
Representative edition published 2002
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Early Graves (A Brandstetter Mystery)
Representative edition published 2002
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The Little Dog Laughed (A Brandstetter Mystery)
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Troublemaker
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Nightwork (A Brandstetter Mystery)
Representative edition published 2001
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Blood, snow, and classic cars
Representative edition published 2000
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Fadeout
Representative edition published 2000
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Gravedigger (A Brandstetter Mystery)
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James P. Cannon
Representative edition published 1999
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Class, party, and state and the Eastern European revolution
Representative edition published 1999
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Healy's Big Lie
Representative edition published 1999
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James P. Cannon
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Marxism Vs. Ultraleftism
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Maoism vs. Bolshevism
Representative edition published 1998
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Rheinische Briefe und Akten zur Geschichte der politischen Bewegung, 1830-1850 (v. 1: Deutsche Geschichtsquellen des 19. Jahrhunderts)
Representative edition published 1997
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Les mouettes volent bas
Representative edition published 1995
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Jack of Hearts
Representative edition published 1995
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