num_pages: 187
description: Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd and deeply felt, Fadeout remains as fresh today as when it startled readers more than thirty years ago.
language: English
title: Fadeout
titlecomplete: Fadeout (Dave Brandstetter, #1)
characters: Buddy Mundy, Hale McNeil, Loomis, Terry Lockridge, Gretchen Olson, Thorne Olson, Phil Mundy, Doug Sawyer, Lloyd Chalmers, Mildred Mundy, Dave Brandstetter, Anselmo, Fox Olson
genres: Historical, Crime, Queer, M M Romance, Mystery Thriller, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 2028
places: California
series: Dave Brandstetter
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press