The fabulous clipjoint
By: Frederic Brown ; with a new introd. by Ron Goulart.
Series: The Gregg Press mystery series
Publisher: Gregg Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Private investigators -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction; Hunter, Ed (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Hunter, Am (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Vice and murder prowl Chicago, and one man hunts a killer through the glittering Gold Coast and seamy back alleys. Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk. But when his father doesn't come home one night, Ed finds out how good he had it. 1948 Edgar Award winner, for Best First Novel.
Notes: Reprint of the 1948 ed. published by Bantam Books, New York.