Skinflick
Subtitle: a Dave Brandstetter mystery
By: Joseph Hansen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Rinehart suspense novel
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Brandstetter, Dave (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- United States -- Fiction; Gay men -- Fiction
Description: Now working freelance, Dave Brandstetter digs into an evangelist's secret life. His father's death left Brandstetter with a hole in his heart and an inheritance in his bank account. The money allowed him to venture out on his own, launching a freelance insurance investigation agency that specializes in suspicious deaths. His first case is potentially explosive, and if he isn't careful, it could be his last. Crusading evangelist Gerald Dawson believes that piety and violence go hand-in-hand. To clean up his local skid row, he has taken to vigilante justice, ransacking pornography shops and intimidating their owners. When Gerald is found with his neck snapped, the police finger smut peddler Lon Tooker for the crime, but Dave disagrees. As he digs into the holy man's nighttime activities, he finds a collection of sins that would make even the devil blush. Skinflick is book five in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes Troublemaker and The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of.