Frederic Brown

Arena

Pulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away. But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the ones on the cover of Startling Stories walked the streets without attracting undue comment. And when he brought out a half-dollar coin in a drugstore, the cops wanted to shoot him on sight as an Arcturian spy. Wait a minute. Seven-foot purple moon-monsters? Earth at war with Arcturus? General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Venus Sector? What mad universe was this? One thing was for sure: Keith Winton had to find out fast - or he'd be good and dead, in this universe or any other.

What Mad Universe

The Bloody Moonlight, first published in 1948, is a fascinating detective/murder mystery featuring the Chicago-based team of Ed Hunter and his Uncle Am. The pair are working for the Ben Starlock Agency in this, the third book in their series. The case involves an inventor who has created an interstellar radio receiver, a potential female investor who wants to know if the inventor’s claims that he has communicated with Mars are true, and a string of chilling murders that are possibly the work of a werewolf. Author Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer who also wrote television plays for the Alfred Hitchcock series. His first full-length Crime Fiction, The Fabulous Clipjoint, received the Edgar award for the best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America, and introduced the characters of Ed and Am Hunter.

Frederic Brown

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