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Cover art: Griffith Foxley
Blurb: “It was only cheap glass, a fraud, a come-on for the suckers who paid Doc Magus to gaze into its depths and tell them tomorrow would be better. And Doc —a decent man, a smart man - pitied them. Yet tonight, even Doc had to believe the Madball. There was nothing left to lead him to the money
- enough money to spring him free of the raucous, sordid world of the pitchmen and the pickled punks, the cotton candy and the kewpie dolls - and the bally dancers who needed him for all-night alibis.
Doc was shrewd, but not quite shrewd enough. Someone else knew about the $42,000 - a specialist in death, who was only yards away . . .
MADBALL is a novel of one traveling show, and of the lives of its carnys, who live too close to the edge of frenzy• by Fredric Brown
Author of THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT • WHAT MAD UNIVERSE
NIGHT OF THE JABBERWOCK • DEATH HAS MANY DOORS ETC.
MADBALL is an original novel, not a reprint”