Darryl Cutler knows a good thing when he sees it—and old Stewart Moody's fortune is the best thing he's ever seen. So Darryl takes care of the dying old man, knowing the promised inheritance is well worth the wait. Or so Darryl believes, until something even better comes along. When Chick Pelletier, a young sunny-haired would-be actor appears on the scene Darryl is obsessed: he'll do anything to please Chick. But Darryl has finally met the hustler who can out-hustle him, and the stakes are getting higher all the time...
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. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.
