Annal:1977 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1977. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Promised Land: A Spenser Novel
- 1977 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.27
Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife—and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.
Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one…the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead…and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing.
“Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eye around today.” (The Cincinnati Post)Find it:
