num_pages: 192
description: MADBALL. . . It was only cheap glass a fraud a come-on for the suckers who paid Doc Magus to gaze into its depths and tell them tomorrow would be better. And Doc--a decent man a smart man--pitied them. Yet tonight even Doc had to believe the Madball. There was nothing left to lead him to the money--enough money to spring him free of the raucous sordid world of the pitchmen and the pickled punks the cotton candy and the kewpie dolls--and the belly dancers who needed him for all-night alibis.Doc was shrewd but not quite shrewd enough. Someone else knew about the $42000--a specialist in death who was only yards away. . .MADBALL is a novel of one traveling show and of the lives of its carneys who live to close to the edge of frenzy.
language: English
title: Madball
publisher: Dell First Edition