Title The fabulous clipjoint / Fredric Brown ; introduction by Lawrence Block.

Publication Info.	New York : Penzler Publishers, 2021.
	©1947
	[New York] : Distributed by W. W. Norton.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level	MYSTERY BROWN	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	MYS BROW	Check Shelf
Manchester, Whiton Branch - Adult Fiction	BROWN, FREDERIC	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F BROWN	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction	FIC BROWN, F	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	FIC MYS BROWN	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Mysteries	M BROWN FREDRIC	Check Shelf

Description	vi, 212 pages ; 21 cm.
Series	Ed & Am Hunter series ; [1]
	Otto Penzler presents American mystery classics
	Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972. Ed and Am mystery novel.
	Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library.
Note	Originally published by Dutton in 1947.
	Includes discussion questions.
Summary	"In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don't take a huge interest in finding the murderer of Wallace Hunter, a linotype operator who turns up dead after a solitary drinking adventure that led through many of the Loop's less reputable establishments. But for his teenage son, Ed, and his carny brother, Am, something about Wallace's death feels fishy, a fact that grows increasingly bothersome when it becomes clear that some of the witnesses aren't telling the whole story. In order to get to the heart of the matter, they'll need all the skills Am picked up in the circus life--skills that young Ed will have to pick up on fast. And in the process of discovering the killer, they make another discovery as well: Wallace was a much different man than the father Ed 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"--Book jacket flap.
Subject	Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
	Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction.
	Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
	Teenage boys -- Fiction.
	Uncles -- Fiction.
	Carnivals -- Employees -- Fiction.
	Secrecy -- Fiction.
	Nineteen forties -- Fiction.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Detective and mystery fiction.
	Novels.
Added Author	Block, Lawrence, writer of introduction.
ISBN	9781613162545 paperback
	1613162545 paperback
	9781613162538 hardcover
	1613162537 hardcover

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