“The Fabulous Clipjoint” (), by Frederic Brown, is a coming-of-age story about Ed Hunter, whose father is murdered in a Chicago alley. Ed, age 18, is living with his stepmom and stepsister. He heads to Wisconsin to see his Uncle Ambrose, who works in a carnival/5. · After almost a decade of publishing pulp sci-fi and mystery short stories, Fredric Brown had his first novel published in Entitled THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT, it was both a marvelous mystery as well as a superb "coming-of-age" story.5/5(5). In The Fabulous Clipjoint, Fredric Brown spins a great story with most of the elements of noir fiction as written in the ’s. This is the first in what became a series featuring Ed and Ambrose Hunter, a nephew-uncle team who solve a mystery in more ways than one/5(56).
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. Fredric Brown's first mystery novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the Edgar Award for outstanding first mystery novel. GENRE. Nonfiction. Fredric Brown was a prolific writer of multiple genres, including mystery, sci-fi, poetry, and non-fiction, whose work has been championed by Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Umberto Eco, and many more literary luminaries. The Fabulous Clipjoint. Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master who has been writing award-winning. Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint comes from a now-vanished world of crime fiction that once satisfied the same appetites in the audience that are now fed by television programming. Neatly crafted and loaded with atmosphere and humor, The Fabulous Clipjoint, published in , follows the exploits of an unlikely pair of amateur sleuths.
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. The book’s memorable mixture of a hardboiled mystery with an urban coming of age narrative remains fresh to this day. The Fabulous Clipjoint is also the first of seven detective novels featuring the nephew/uncle team of Ed and Am Hunter. The subsequent novels in the series are: The Dead Ringer, The Bloody Moonlight, Compliments of a Fiend, Death Has Many Doors, The Late Lamented, and Mrs Murphy's Underpants. In The Fabulous Clipjoint, Fredric Brown spins a great story with most of the elements of noir fiction as written in the ’s. This is the first in what became a series featuring Ed and Ambrose Hunter, a nephew-uncle team who solve a mystery in more ways than one.
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