Fadeout.

Joseph Hansen

Fadeout.

New York and Evanston:

Harper & Row, Publishers

1970

The first novel published under the author’s own name, Fadeout introduced the groundbreaking character of openly gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter. As tough as any “hardboiled” private investigator, Brandstetter appeared in eleven more of Hansen’s novels. For the most part, the novel avoids stereotypes, and the fact that Brandstetter is gay is incidental to the plot. Brandstetter is still reeling from the death from cancer of his lover, Rod, and according to the dust jacket, has “to fight a grieving sense of emptiness.” In other words, he is human.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson