The Little Dog Laughed, Joseph Hansen
The Little Dog Laughed, Joseph Hansen
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The Little Dog Laughed
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Author: Joseph Hansen

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2019

Synopsis

While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter’s final scoop.Adam Streeter has covered international crises from Siberia to Cambodia. When disaster strikes, he grabs his battered typewriter and hops on a plane, hurling himself into danger wherever the story demands. He is brave, talented, and internationally renowned—so why would he turn a pistol on himself?Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist this successful would never take his own life. Suspecting treachery, he digs into Adam’s last story—an unpublished investigation into the whereabouts of a vanished South American strongman, called El Carnicero, the Butcher—and Adam’s death shows every hallmark of his bloody style. To finish Adam’s investigation, Dave will have to make like a war correspondent and leap into the line of fire.

About Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was the author of more than twenty-five novels and was a renowned short-story writer. The winner of the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, he was also the author of A Smile in His Lifetime, Living Upstairs, Job’s Year, and Bohannon’s Country.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 09, 2019

Another decent mystery featuring gay LA insurance investigator David Brandstetter. This one, written in the mid-'80's, is about a country called "Los Innocentes" that sounds a lot like El Salvador and a Colonel Zorn that sounds a little like Oliver North.......more

Goodreads review by James on July 18, 2013

When Adam Streeter, a famous foreign correspondent, is found shot to death in his study, it appears to be an open and shut case. The cops rule it a suicide and Streeter's blind seventeen-year-old daughter, Chrissie, who was in the house at the time, reluctantly agrees. The Banner Insurance Company,......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 12, 2025

This Brandsetter novel was a little more out there than previous ones. Less of a regular murder mystery (although it was also that) and more international conspiracy. Probably my least favourite of them all so far, but still a solid 4 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Elvin on June 07, 2024

This one was great but a little all over the place. Probably would have made more sense in the time it was written, when people were more familiar with Cold War ops and the US’s movement against communism. It makes sense with just a history class knowledge, but some of the Nuance gets lost I think.......more

Quotes

“Hansen is the most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author

“Characters with real stuffing in them.” Ellery Queen, praise for the series

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