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Originally Posted by gmw
Aside from chuckling to myself as I added Columbo to the list (and refraining from adding Macmillan or his wife), my point really was that many book detectives have been essentially asexual. So having a book blurb state that the detective is homosexual or heterosexual seemed to imply that the detective's sexuality was relevant to the story. If Dave Brandstetter had been described as flamboyantly homosexual, and given the book is set in the 70s, then that might have given the impression of Boy George playing PI. But the Amazon blurb describes him as "contentedly gay", which leaves me at a bit of a loss.
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I think I described Dave Brandstetter offline as a mashup of Raymond Chandler and Christopher Isherwood. Indeed, he reminds me very much of the protagonist in Isherwood's
A Single Man - gay man at ease with himself, recently lost his partner, California.