The Bloody Moonlight: An Ed & Am Hunter Mystery
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“Exciting…amorous…mystifying.” ―Hartford Courant
It’s Ed Hunter’s first case with Chicago’s Starlock Agency, after he and Uncle Am have left the carney life behind—investigating a rural inventor who claims his new receiver is picking up signals from outer space. On his way to interview the subject, Ed is startled by an inhuman growl before stumbling across a corpse in a ditch with his throat torn out. Was it an animal attack or a psychotic killer, or something unnatural? Whatever it was, everything that can go wrong from that point on does. Ed’s feud with the local sheriff who hates big-city private detectives and his pursuit of a pretty young librarian who’s not quite what she seems only complicate the job he was hired to do, never mind the job he’s forced to do if he wants to save his own neck—solving a grisly murder.
From the Edgar Award–winning author of The Fabulous Clipjoint and The Dead Ringer, The Bloody Moonlight is Fredric Brown at his best.
“[Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives…[Brown is] a real pro―a natural storyteller.” ―New York Times
“[Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time.” ―Mickey Spillane
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About the author
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) was an American writer known both for his work as an author of mysteries and science fiction. He first gained prominence for his hundreds of short stories that ran in the crime and sci-fi pulps during the 1930s and ’40s. In 1947 he wrote his first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, a mystery that won that year’ s Edgar Award. He would go on to publish 27 more novels, both mysteries and science fiction, including six more Ed & Am Hunter Mysteries.
