Joseph Hansen, a mystery novelist known not only for his crisp, lean prose and trite plots but also for creatg one of the mystery genre's first gay protagonists his seri of Dave Brandstetter novels, died on Nov. 24 at his home here. He was 81. The e was heart failure, his fay said. He had long suffered om rpiratory illns.
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- GAY SLTH
- NOVELIST EDWARD O. PHILLIPS PENNED A SERI FEATURG GAY SLTH GEOFY CHADWICK
- JOSEPH HANSEN, 81, WHOSE MYSTERY NOVELS HAD A GAY SLTH, DI
- THE GAY MALE SLTH
- THE GAY MALE SLTH PRT AND FILM
- THE GAY MALE SLTH PRT AND FILM: A HISTORY AND ANNOTATED BIBLGRAPHY
GAY SLTH
Gay Slth genre: new releas and popular books, cludg Ced to Death by Meg Perry, Two Hundred Bon by Meg Perry, Twelve Sends by Meg Perry, Che... * gay sleuth *
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Phillips gave Canada s first fictnal gay male slth Geofy Chadwick, an anglophone lawyer om Montreal’s Wtmount neighbourhood who first appeared Sunday’s Child (1981) a review of the book, which was shortlisted for the Books Canada First Novel Award, Canadian novelist Marian Engel wrote, “It’s real, and ’s movg. Phillips, who was known as Ted, went on to wre a total of 12 novels – almost all of them set Wtmount – cludg Buried on Sunday, which won the Crime Wrers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award mystery novels featurg Geofy Chadwick all had “Sunday” their tl, a cheeky play on the nursery rhyme phrase, “But a child born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay.
NOVELIST EDWARD O. PHILLIPS PENNED A SERI FEATURG GAY SLTH GEOFY CHADWICK
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”Sunday’s Child drew immediate attentn for s out protagonist and found fans the gay muny and beyond.
JOSEPH HANSEN, 81, WHOSE MYSTERY NOVELS HAD A GAY SLTH, DI
Wrer Richard Lipez, which have been ma to a popular televisn movie seri starrg gay actor Chad Allen. The first published mystery book wh a gay slth as the lead character is believed to be 'The Heart Exile' (1953) by Hungarian thor Adam Mart Hegs, wrg unr the pen name Rodney Garland.
The first Amerin murr mystery novel is believed to be 'The Gay Detective' (1961) by Lou Hogan (wrg unr the pen name Lou Rand).
Arts|Joseph Hansen, 81, Whose Mystery Novels Had a Gay Slth, Di ADVERTISEMENTDec. 6 - Joseph Hansen, a mystery novelist known not only for his crisp, lean prose and trite plots but also for creatg one of the mystery genre's first gay protagonists his seri of Dave Brandstetter novels, died on Nov. He had long suffered om rpiratory had published five novels and a llectn of short stori alg ankly wh homosexual subject matter unr the name Jam Colton when "Faout, " the first of his 12 Brandstetter mysteri, was released 1970.
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Hansen told The Orange County Register 1998, "was to take the te hard-boiled character Amerin fictn tradn and make him homosexual. His first succs as a wrer me 1952 when The New Yorker began publishg his the 1960's he worked for the gay magaze One and later for the magaze Tangents.
THE GAY MALE SLTH PRT AND FILM
He produced the rad show "Homosexualy Today" for KPFK-FM the late 1960's and helped found the first Gay Pri Para Hollywood was also a founr of the Venice Poetry Workshop and tght fictn workshops at the Universy of California and Wleyan Bancroft, Mr. He once scribed their relatnship as that of a gay man and a woman who happened to love each other.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 25 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Joseph Hansen, 81, Whose Mystery Novels Had a Gay Slth. I didn’t know he existed (Poirot beg jt Belgian) until I me across Drewey Wayne Gunn’s The Gay Male Slth Prt and Film the reference sectn of the Mechanics’ Instute, where I’m now spendg my days wrg so’s to steer clear om mp durg my sabbatil (or clear enough: I pass mp every day I step outsi).
THE GAY MALE SLTH PRT AND FILM: A HISTORY AND ANNOTATED BIBLGRAPHY
The novel rporat two important patterns that would bee hallmarks of the gay mystery.
[…] Send, the novel is the prototype of the gay mystery as romance. […] Th, om the begng, gay mysteri have willfully vlated Chandler’s belief that a “[l]ove tert nearly always weakens a mystery story bee creat a type of spense that is antagonistic … to the tective’s stggle to solve the problem. ” For the gay tective, ’s plementary.
I’ve never tght mystery fictn, knowg nothg of how they’re put together, but I n image g that craft text of Chandler’s (“Twelve Not on the Mystery Story”) and a flash alienatg any gay stunts I’d have and overlookg an entire subgenre of the genre.