Ed and Am Hunter series 01 – 07 by Fredric Brown
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Overview: Chicago’s own ED and AM HUNTER are one of the best, and most endearing and beloved private eye teams in the genre, and Fredric Brown’s one of the best writers to ever grace the genre, so what’s not to like?
Young, brash, ambitious, idealistic Ed Hunter and his uncle Am, a cheerful, chubby, streetwise ex-carny with a taste for poker, run the Hunter and Hunter Detective Agency in Chicago and it’s often Ed, wearing his heart on his sleeve, who ends up falling head over heels for some "skirt", who leads them into some of the most entertaining, and offbeat, capers in detective fiction.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
01 The Fabulous Clipjoint
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 wants to see the world before it’s too late. Then his father doesn’t come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it. The bulk of the book has Ed teaming up with Uncle Ambrose, a former carny worker, and trying to find out who killed Ed’s dad. But the title is as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a pulp. Author Brown won the Edgar award in 1947 for this spectacular first-effort.
02 The Dead Ringer
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 freaks and strippers of the carnival–a killer who chose his victims according to size!
Ed and his Uncle Am are back, working in a travelling carnival through the Midwest. Bodies, though smallish in stature, keep piling up, and Ed finds himself head over heels in love. Fascinating for the insights into carnival life that this book provides.
03 The Bloody Moonlight
Ed and Am have gotten away from the Carney life. These days, they’re working for the Starlock Detective Agency. Ed’s first case is a wealthy client trying to sound out whether an investment’s worth it. But then he finds a body with its throat cut, and hears some external howling that might just be from a werewolf.
04 Compliments of a Fiend
Uncle Am is kidnapped! Ed Hunter’s partner-in-crime was just out on a routine case, a man who’d skipped out on some car payments, when the old fellow vanishes. There’s also a fortuneteller who claims to know how to pick the daily "number," a gangster who’d like more info about same, a love interest for young Ed, and a Fortean collector of Ambroses, who might just be responsible for Uncle Am’s disappearance.
05 Death Has Many Doors
Having opened their own detective agency, Ed and Am start by taking cases passed along by former employer Starlock. One day a girl walks into their door, in fear of murder caused by Martians. The pair don’t take her too seriously… until she winds up dead.
06 The Late Lamented
Ed Hunter with his Uncle Am work along with other investigators on the postmortem of Jason Rogers, at whose death $46,000 in city funds are revealed to be missing. Through the dead man’s daughter, and presumptive legatee, Ed tries to secure the truth behind his death and her loyalty to him pleads his guilt rather than innocence before the obscured facts and cash figures prove otherwise.
07 Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants
Am and Ed Hunter, the popular uncle/nephew detective team, get pulled into Vincent Dolan’s life unwillingly but completely. Dolan, a numbers racket king, chooses to live in the middleclass manner, but one of his intimates has fingered him for death in the time honored gangland tradition. The only possible solution is given away early on and then craftily covered up as only Brown can do it.
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