Title: Early Graves (#9 in the Dave Brandstetter series) Author: Joseph Hansen Published by: Mysterious Press, 1987 ISBN: 0-89296-259-6 [hardcover, 184 pages]
When Dave Brandstetter returns home from a business trip, he finds an unknown dead man on his doorstep. Is he the latest victim of a serial killer the media are calling the "Knifer in the Dark"? It looks that way. The victims were all young men, homosexuals, dying of AIDS.So was Drew Dodge. But the others were found where they fell, in sordid back streets, parks, alleyways. Someone brought Dodge's body to Dave. He wants to know who, and why. And this desire sends him on a dogged manhunt up grim byways of sickness, suffering, and grief.
It also draws him into handsome enclaves of the squash court and country club set of fast money and risky deals. And the events take a last weird turn on a storm-lashed, nighttime beach, far from the expected end.
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