Fredric Brown
The Fabulous Clipjoint
By: Fredric Brown
1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Suspense
Pages: 136
Murder Can Be Fun
By: Fredric Brown
Brown's novel about an ex-reporter who, disenchanted with his career writing a radio soap opera, looks to create a new show, dubbed "Murder Can Be Fun," and change genres. Things get dicey when killings happen, using our heroe's unpublished...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 152
Night of the Jabberwock
By: Fredric Brown
In the small town of Carmel City, it's just another Thursday night for longstanding editor and Lewis Carroll aficionado Doc Stoeger as he puts his weekly newspaper to bed. Of course there isn't any real news in the Carmel City Clarion, but then there...
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 172
The Dead Ringer
By: Fredric Brown
Three murders were too many for Ed Hunter. Not even a dazzling redhead from the carnival's girl show could keep Ed altogether happy--not with a murderer running loose. Then Ed found it was up to him and his Uncle Am to find the killer among the...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 160
The Deep End
By: Fredric Brown
The story starts with the death of a child at an amusement park. Immediately, the situation sparks the classic 'could it be an accident? Of course not . . . and it isn't long before newspaperman Sam Evans begins to sense that something is wrong. But...
Published: Jan 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 166
The Freakshow Murders: And A Cat from Siam (Creation Oneiros Scorpionic)
By: Fredric Brown
First published in 1943, THE FREAKSHOW MURDERS is a classic, but long-neglected, 9-chapter mystery novella by the king of twisted crime fiction, Fredric Brown. Set in the shadowy confines of a travelling carnival, complete with its own freaks,...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 160
The Lenient Beast
By: Fredric Brown
A man is found dead in a backyard in Tucson, Arizona, but the police find it difficult to find any motive for murder. The victim had recently lost his wife and three children in a car crash. One might think from his circumstance that it was suicide,...
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 162
The Screaming Mimi
By: Fredric Brown
His name really was Sweeney, but he was only five-eighths Irish and he was only three-quarters drunk. But that's about as near as truth ever approximates a pattern, and if you won't settle for that, you'd better quit reading. If you don't maybe...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 196