Fade to Black by Robert Goldsborough

Fade to Black by Robert Goldsborough

This time, Wolfe and Archie are hired to determine who is leaking critical information from one marketing firm to another. As Archie begins their investigation, we learn just enough about the cast of suspects to be interested when a murder ups the ante all around. I figured out the leaker and murderer almost from moment one, but never had anything remotely approaching evidence to support my suspicions. Wolfe manages to come to the same conclusion I did also without evidence, although at least he constructed a logical chain of events to point to his assumed culprit. Everything concludes in a classic Wolfe confrontation scene but without the bang we usually get from a Stout or Goldsborough novel. This is an enjoyable book, but it’s not one of the best.