The Fabulous Clipjoint: An Ed & Am Hunter Mystery

“Ingenious . . . Plunges the reader into a desperate, working-class America now better known through William Lindsay Gresham’s precisely contemporary novel Nightmare Alley and such film-noir classics as Out of the Past and The Postman Always Rings Twice.” —Washington Post

“[Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time.” —Mickey Spillane

When Wally Hunter is found bludgeoned to death in an alley in Chicago’s near north side, his 18-year-old son, Ed, and carney brother, Ambrose, team up ...