Annal:1974 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best First Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1974. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1974 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.24
Fact sometimes trails in the footsteps of fiction, and so it is that events in the real world have followed much the course predicted by Paul Erdman’s famous novel. Written when the first Arab oil embargo sent shock waves through our carefully balanced and delicately tuned economic system, The Billion Dollar Sure Thing describes a plot to control the world’s monetary assets.
