Fadeout is a hardboiled mystery novel by American crime writer Joseph Hansen, and the first to feature his popular character Dave Brandstetter, an openly gay detective.

[2] In 2022, the book was again republished by Soho Syndicate, a division of Penguin Random House, with a new introduction by Michael Nava.

[3] In 2018, screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely optioned film and television rights to the entire Brandstetter series.

[4] Beloved pop star Fox Olson is assumed to have died when his car is found destroyed beneath a narrow wooden bridge.

However, without the sign of a body, no-nonsense insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter believes otherwise, and soon finds evidence that indicates he is right.