All 12 Dave Brandstetter novels from stellar PI scribe Joseph Hansen, collecting in one volume the mysteries that netted their author a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Brandstetter, a hardboiled insurance investigator, plies his trade in the hills and valleys of California. Extraordinarily, for a series of novels begun in the early 1970s, he is also openly, comfortably and thoroughly unstereotypically gay. A landmark series from a recognised giant of the genre.