Annal:1988 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1988. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1988 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 1988 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- Score: 20.38
When Ellen Lang’s husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can’t even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back—no questions asked.
The search for Ellen’s errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen…
