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The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown β€” book cover

The Fabulous Clipjoint

by Fredric Brown
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Synopsis

1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his father doesn't come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it. The bulk of the book has Ed teaming up with Uncle Ambrose, a former carny worker, and trying to find out who killed Ed's dad. But the title is as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a pulp. Author Brown won the Edgar award in 1947 for this spectacular first-effort.

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Book Details

Published
August 1, 2004
Publisher
blackmask.com
Pages
132
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781596541191

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