thriller Down River has captured the Edgar for Best Novel, and was award the Prize for Best First Novel for In the Woods. 's Queenpin won for Best Paperback Original, and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters received the Critical/Biographical Edgar.
The Awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America and named for , who is credited with the invention of the detective fiction genre.
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Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel.John Hart’s debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring, “There hasn’t been a thri...
Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw...
Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a ...
This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. For the ...