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The Fabulous Clipjoint

(1947)
(The first book in the Ed & Am Hunter Mysteries series)
A novel by Fredric Brown

Awards
1948 Edgar Award for Best First Novel

Two gangsters become sleuths in a murder case that quickly threatens to claim them too as victims. Brown's lighthearted but suspenseful first novel won the first Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1947.

Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Fredric Brown is my favourite writer of all time." - Mickey Spillane

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