Overview
""Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham's precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice."" --Washington Post ""[Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time."" --Mickey Spillane When Wally Hunter is found bludgeoned to death in an alley in Chicago's near north side, his 18-year-old son, Ed, and carney brother, Ambrose, team up to find out who killed him. Winner of the 1948 Edgar Award, The Fabulous Clipjoint was Fredric Brown's first novel, launching the Ed & Am Hunter mystery series and establishing Brown as one of the 20th century's finest crime writers. ""[Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives . . . [Fredric Brown is] a real pro--a natural storyteller."" --New York Times ""[E]nough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald, and other crime icons."" --Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
Full Product Details
Author: Fredric Brown
Publisher: Top Five Books
Imprint: Top Five Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.272kg
ISBN: 9781938938214
ISBN 10: 1938938216
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""[Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time."" --Mickey Spillane ""Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham's precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice."" --Washington Post ""[Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives . . . [Fredric Brown is] a real pro--a natural storyteller."" --New York Times ""[E]nough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald, and other crime icons."" --Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
Author Information
Fredric Brown (1906- 1972) was an American writer known both for his work as an author of mysteries and science fiction. He first gained prominence for his hundreds of short stories that ran in the crime and sci-fi pulps during the 1930s and ' 40s. In 1947 he wrote his first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, a mystery that won that year's Edgar Award. He would go on to publish 27 more novels, both mysteries and science fiction, including six more Ed & Am Hunter Mysteries.
