Death Claims
Joseph Hansen, author, Published in 1973 by Harper & Row
Stated first edition hardcover. Ex-library copy.
"Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing."
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