Annal:1987 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1987. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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A Taste for Death: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
- 1987 Macavity-Novel winner
- 1986 Silver Dagger
- Score: 18.37
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice—all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined…
