The Fabulous Clipjoint 9781804999509 Paperback

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 arent interested in finding Wallaces murderer, but his teenage son, Ed, thinks theres more to this than meets the eye. The witnesses arent 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 Clipjointis the first in Fredric Browns long-running Ed & Am Hunter series. The books memorable mixture of a hardboiled mystery with an urban coming of age narrative remains fresh to this day.Browndeserves the same acclaim as Raymond Chandler BooklistThe first of seven cases for Ed and Amwill leave readers hungry for more Kirkus*WINNER OF THE 1948 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL*