Annal:1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best First Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1971. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1971 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.21
John “Duke” Anderson was recently paroled from Sing Sing, after serving time on a charge of breaking and entering. A rich woman picks him up one evening and takes him back to her apartment, in a small but elegant building on the Upper East Side. Anderson is intrigued by the situation in the building, seeing it as a possible target for a large-scale robbery. He needs backing, though, and he gets it through his contacts with the underworld. What Anderson does not know is that much of what he is already doing is being captured as evidence through electronic…
