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The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hansen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DAVE BRANDSTETTERThe murder of a conservative police chief in a fishing village north of Los Angeles sends death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter into the no-man's land between cops and activists in this brilliantly plotted mystery, which perfectly captures California in the mid-1970s. A small-town Chief of Police with reactionary politics and national ambitions, Ben Orton struck fear in the hearts of anyone who fell out of line in his little fiefdom of La Caleta. Most recently that has included gay rights activists pushing for the hiring of a police officer from their community. When big Ben is found in his backyard bludgeoned to death by a large terracotta pot, the police arrest the outspoken gay owner of a local nursery. Orton had a life insurance policy that brings death claims investigator Dave Brandstetter north to pry. As far as Dave can tell, the cops did almost nothing to investigate Orton’s death and what...
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- Author
- Joseph Hansen
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (93 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14