Brandstetter and Others Author:Joseph Hansen Five stories by Joseph Hansen. — The Anderson Boy is an initially engaging, ultimately heavyhanded tale of a crime-haunted past--with psychosexual overtones. — The Tango Bear: Horse-rancher Hack Bohannon gives refuge to an injured runaway girl who refuses to explain what she's running from. — Election Day and Surf both feature Dave Brandstetter. El... more »ection Day involves the murder of a singer-turned-addict/hooker who turns out to have roots in the antiwar movement circa 1970. In Surf several ex-lovers and ex-rivals have motives for killing a homosexual California bartender.
Willow's Money centers on the intense lesbian relationship between youngish Willow (a disinherited heiress) and older, suicidal, Mabel, a would-be writer: the tortured plot-turns include Mabel's long-term coma, Willow's wealthy and idiotically ever-adoring suitor. . . and, finally, Willow's nobly-motivated pregnancy, which Mabel (emerging from coma) takes the wrong way.« less