The Fabulous Clipjoint

*WINNER OF THE 1948 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL*Discover this much-loved murder mystery classic, perfect for fans of The British Library Crime Classics!'Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America' - Washington PostIn 1940s Chicago, a man is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry.The police aren`t interested in finding Wallace`s murderer, but his teenage son, Ed, thinks there`s more to this than meets the eye. The witnesses aren`t telling the whole story, and in the process of finding the killer, Ed makes another discovery: Wallace was a very different man to the father he thought he knew.The Edgar Award-winning novel that announced a legendary voice in crime fiction, The Fabulous Clipjoint is the first in Fredric Brown`s long-running Ed & Am Hunter series. The book`s memorable mixture of a hardboiled mystery with an urban coming of age narrative remains fresh to this day.`Brown deserves the same acclaim as Raymond Chandler.` Booklist`The first of seven cases for Ed and Am will leave readers hungry for more.` Kirkus

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