Madball by Fredric Brown. Gold Medal S-1132 (1961). Cover Art by Mitchell Hooks
From the back cover:
MADBALL . . . It looked like crystal, but it was only cheap glass, a come-on for the suckers who paid Doc to gaze into it and tell them tomorrow would be better. But tonight the madball might hold the secret of the hidden money that could spring Doc out of this frenzied sordid world of kewpie dolls and pitchmen, freaks and cooch dancers . . .
MADBALL . . . "A carnival you'll remember more vividly than any you've attended." -- Anthony Boucher, in the N.Y. Times Book Review
MADBALL . . . A driving, hard-paced novel of life in a traveling carnival, by one of the best suspense writers in the business . . .
MADBALL . . . FREDRIC BROWN
Madball by Fredric Brown. Gold Medal S-1132 (1961). Cover Art by Mitchell Hooks
From the back cover:
MADBALL . . . It looked like crystal, but it was only cheap glass, a come-on for the suckers who paid Doc to gaze into it and tell them tomorrow would be better. But tonight the madball might hold the secret of the hidden money that could spring Doc out of this frenzied sordid world of kewpie dolls and pitchmen, freaks and cooch dancers . . .
MADBALL . . . "A carnival you'll remember more vividly than any you've attended." -- Anthony Boucher, in the N.Y. Times Book Review
MADBALL . . . A driving, hard-paced novel of life in a traveling carnival, by one of the best suspense writers in the business . . .
MADBALL . . . FREDRIC BROWN