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==Life and works==
Although he published almost forty books in a wide variety of genres, Hansen is best remembered for his ground breaking series of crime novels starring his most iconic creation, Dave Brandstetter, an openly [[homosexual]] private eye who still embodied the tough, no-nonsense personality of the classic [[hardboiled]] protagonist. His first adventure, ''Fadeout'', was published in 1970, and over the next twenty-one years eleven more entries in the series were written: ''Death Claims'' (1973), ''Troublemaker'' (1975), ''The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of'' (1978), ''Skinflick'' (1979), ''Gravedigger'' (1982), ''Nightwork'' (1984), ''The Little Dog Laughed'' (1986), ''Early Graves'' (1987), ''Obedience'' (1988), ''The Boyt Who Was Buried This Morning'' (1990), and ''A Country of Old Men'' (1991). No Exit Books, a British publisher, issued an omnibus volume, ''The Complete Brandstetter'', in 2007 (ISBN 9781842431689).
Hansen published his first work, a poem, in the ''[[The New Yorker]]'', in 1952. He also published poetry in other magazines, briefly sang with a folk-music-group on a California radio-station, and had several part-time jobs in bookstores and magazines.
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