A Country of Old Men, Joseph Hansen
A Country of Old Men, Joseph Hansen
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A Country of Old Men
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Author: Joseph Hansen

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2020

Synopsis

For the sake of a frightened child, Dave Brandstetter takes on his very last case.In his decades as an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has never shied away from violence, and he’s had more than his share of close calls. Time is catching up with him, his body is slowing down, and his wit is not as sharp as it used to be. But he will forgo retirement once more for the sake of a puzzle no detective could resist.Walking on the beach, a friend finds a bedraggled child who claims he has witnessed a murder. The victim is a drug-addicted pop star, and the obvious suspect is the dead man’s ex-girlfriend—a junkie whom the child saw standing over the body, gun in hand. In the final installment of Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking series, Dave looks for justice once more, hoping that he will also find a lasting measure of peace.

About Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was the author of more than twenty-five novels and was a renowned short-story writer. The winner of the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, he was also the author of A Smile in His Lifetime, Living Upstairs, Job’s Year, and Bohannon’s Country.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 26, 2023

This is the twelfth and final entry in Joseph Hansen's excellent series featuring insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter. Published over a period of twenty-one years, from Fadeout in 1970, to this book in 1991, the series was witty and very well-written, with cleverly-plotted stories and well-dra......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 31, 2020

When Dave's old friend Madge Dunstan finds a small boy wandering on the beach, her call leads Dave out of retirement and into a complicated case involving the murder of a junkie guitarist. Dave is old now, and his heart isn't what he used to be: will he have the stamina necessary to solve this murde......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on November 27, 2010

The last book of the series. There's not quite no way out of it, but it's still a pretty decisive end for a lot of the characters, and maybe for Dave. You know, I don't really judge these stories anymore on how well the mystery was written. I'm in it for Dave, how good he is, how much he loves the pe......more

Goodreads review by Kaje on January 10, 2017

The last book in the series, so named from the start. Dave isn't that old yet, but he's finding himself tiring more easily, and his mood is frequently melancholy. Despite Cecil still in his life, he seems to feel that he has outlived his span. A couple of cases come his way via old friends - one the......more

Quotes

“Hansen is the most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author

“Characters with real stuffing in them.” Ellery Queen, praise for the series

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