Fadeout (novel)

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. The novel was first published by Harper & Row in 1970, and was reissued by University of Wisconsin Press in 2004 with an introduction from Hansen. In 2022, the book was again republished by Soho Syndicate, a division of Penguin Random House, with a new introduction by Michael Nava.

In 2018, screenwriting duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely optioned film and television rights to the entire Brandstetter series. In early 2025, Markus alluded that he was working alone on the project, which had been optioned by Netflix as a pilot.