8 Books by Fredric Brown
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Overview: Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Noir, Pulp
The Five Day Nightmare
Lloyd Johnson found the ransom note in his typewriter at home: the note which said he had five days to raise $25,000 in unmarked bills if he wanted his wife, Ellen, back alive
Murder Can Be Fun
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 Things get dicey when killings happen, using our heroe’s unpublished scripts as a template. With its chess-playing and references to Alice in Wonderland, one suspects a Spanish admirer for Mr. Brown, as the great Arturo Perez-Reverte also wrote a book about chess-playing, before taking it to new heights with a Dumas-inspired mystery. This book was also published as "A Plot for Murder."
Here Comes a Candle
Here Comes a Candle is Fredric Brown at his most audacious in a novel that was far ahead of its time. It is the story of Joe Bailey, whose young life is at a crossroads. Not only is he involved with a tough Milwaukee racketeer and two completely different women, but he is haunted by childhood trauma. Psychologically complex and told in an array of stylistic variations, it is a tour de force with a savagely ironic ending not to be soon forgotten.
His Name Was Death
The title comes from Revelations 6:8, which in the King James Version says, "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." Hook is that each section starts with "His name was" or "Her name was." The book begins, "Her name was Joyce Dugan, and at four o’clock on this February afternoon she had no remote thought that within the hour before closing time she was about to commit an act that would instigate a chain of murders." After Dugan, the focus moves around a few other people, primarily her boss, Darius Conn, who runs a print shop. The year before he’d killed his wife and gotten away with it, and now he’s feeling bold and very confident. He’s got a plan, and no-one’s going to get in his way.
The Wench Is Dead
Howard Perry has become a drunk—a skid row bum. It wasn’t always so and he has hopes of returning to be a respected university student. But now he spends his days washing dishes to buy enough booze to hopefully blackout at night. His only friend is a prostitute name Billie the Kid. But Billie is just a working girl, and it would be stupid for him to care too much for her. Of course Perry isn’t exactly making the smartest choices as he continues his downward spiral. And when he goes to borrow a drink from Billie’s neighbor, whom soon turns up murdered, things are looking even worse for Perry.
The Lenient Beast
Logical add-on to the old phrase about a busybody never resting. Fred Brown’s Lenient Beast is a five-part narrative telling of the perfect crime. The killer is driven not out of lust, greed or any of the usual sobs, rather ’cause he cares so much for all of us. First published 1956.
Knock Three-One-Two
One night when a desperate rapist-killer stalked a town, ten hours of panic and terror that turned the night into a nightmare. For as the net tightened around the killer more and more people became entangled in a chain of events that ended in an explosion of maniacal savagery.
Before She Kills
This story collection contains: "A Date to Die", "Mad Dog", "Handbook for Homicide", "A Cat Walks", "The Missing Actor" and "Before She Kills".
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