Audio only
Length6h 30m
About this audiobook
" 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
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 to find out who killed him. Winner of the 1948 Edgar Award,
The Fabulous Clipjoint was Fredric Brown' s first novel, launching the Ed & Am Hunter mystery series and establishing Brown as one of the 20th century' s finest crime writers. Brown' s noir classic is available now for the first time as an audiobook, read by Brendon North.
" [Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives . . . [Fredric Brown is] a real pro— a natural storyteller." —
New York Times
" [E]nough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald, and other crime icons." — Dick Adler,
Chicago Tribune
" [Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time." — Mickey Spillane
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (2.2K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon, StoryGraph
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byBrendon North
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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