death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
10 january 2011 greenbrae , california rochester , minnesota joe gores 25 december 1931 joegores.jpg joe gores
 joseph nicholas gores writer
joe gores

joseph nicholas `` joe '' gores -lrb- born december 25 , 1931 , in rochester , minnesota , united states ; died january 10 , 2011 , in greenbrae , california -rrb- was an american mystery writer .
he was known best for his novels and short stories set in san francisco and featuring the fictional `` dan kearney and associates '' -lrb- the `` dka files '' -rrb- private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars , a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man .
gores was also recognized for his novels `` hammett '' -lrb- 1975 ; made into the 1982 film `` hammett '' -rrb- , `` spade & archer '' -lrb- the 2009 prequel to dashiell hammett 's `` the maltese falcon '' -rrb- and his edgar award-winning or - nominated works , such as `` a time of predators '' , `` 32 cadillacs '' and `` come morning '' .
