The Fabulous Clipjoint
by:
Fredric Brown (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780839825418 (0839825412)
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Gregg Press
Pages no: 181
Edition language: English
Series: Ed & Am Hunter (#1)
Winner of the 1948 Edgar for best first. Both a mystery and coming of age tale.
The Fabulous Clipjoint is the Catcher In The Rye of mystery novels - or at least, it is for me.While I read it, I'm living the life of Ed Hunter, a bright but bitter 18-year-old living in the Chicago slums of the 1940s. And the funny thing is that just like Catcher In The Rye, it doesn't feel a bit ...
The Fabulous Clipjoint is the Catcher In The Rye of mystery novels - or at least, it is for me.While I read it, I'm living the life of Ed Hunter, a bright but bitter 18-year-old living in the Chicago slums of the 1940s. And the funny thing is that just like Catcher In The Rye, it doesn't feel a bit ...
This was one of the first science fiction books I ever bought for myself. I was in my mid-teens, living in Westport, CT. The store was called "The Bookworm", I think, and it was run by an aging hippie. The shop was small and dark, with a largish brass bowl filled with sand and sticks of burning ince...
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