Fredric Brown, an American science fiction and mystery writer who also wrote television plays for the Alfred Hitchcock series, published his first full-length mystery novel, "The Fabulous Clipjoint," after a long apprenticeship of some 300 stories.
"The Fabulous Clipjoint" won an Edgar for the best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America and launched the characters of Ed and Am Hunter, an amateur team of detectives based in Chicago that appeared later in other books.
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Fredric Brown, an American science fiction and mystery writer who also wrote television plays for the Alfred Hitchcock series, published his first full-length mystery novel, "The Fabulous Clipjoint," after a long apprenticeship of some 300 stories. "The Fabulous Clipjoint" won an Edgar for the best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America and launched the characters of Ed and Am Hunter, an amateur team of detectives based in Chicago that appeared later in other books.