THE SCREAMING MIMI

by Fredric Brown

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of Brown's three major suspense novels. MIMI is the story of an alcoholic Chicago reporter named Sweeney and his search for a beautiful woman and a Ripper-style killer; it is also an allegorical retelling of 'Beauty and the Beast.' - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 93. Basis for the 1958 film noir of the same name with

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