Chicago’s own ED and AM HUNTER are one of the best, andmost endearing and beloved private eye teams in the genre, and FredricBrown’s one of the best writers to ever grace the genre, so what’s notto like?Young, brash, ambitious, idealistic Ed Hunter and his uncle Am,a cheerful, chubby, streetwise ex-carny with a taste for poker, run theHunter and Hunter Detective Agency in Chicago and it’s often Ed,wearing his heart on his sleeve, who ends up falling head over heels forsome “skirt”, who leads them into some of the most entertaining, andoffbeat, capers in detective fiction. I particularly likedDeath Has Many Doors, where a young woman is convinced that Martians are out to get her.But the undisputed highlight of the series and a stone-cold classic ofthe P.I. genre is definitely the one that kicked off the series:The Fabulous Clipjoint,an alternately heart-warming and darkly grim meditation on obsession,coming-of-age and the ensuing weight of maturity. Bill Pronzin referredto it, in 1001 Midnights, as “unquestionably more than just another hard-boiled detective tale.”The Fabulous Clipjoint(1947)The Dead Ringer(1948)The Bloody Moonlight(1949)Compliments of a Fiend(1950)Death Has Many Doors(1951)The Late Lamented(February 1959)"Before She Kills" (1961,Ed McBain's Mystery Book)Mrs. Murphy's Underpants(1963)"The Missing Actor" (November 1963,The Saint Mystery Magazine)