Annal:1990 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Macavity Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Grime and Punishment: A Jane Jeffry Mystery
- 1990 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 1989 Agatha–1st Novel winner
- Score: 20.4
It’s So hard to Kill Good Help These Days…
With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffry sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the “Happy Helper” cleaning lady they all share wouldn’t know a dustball if she was choking on it. That hardly seems reason enough, however, to do the disreputable domestic in.
So when the charwoman in question is discovered strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane decides to dig up the real dirt—if the tenacious single mom can find any time to spare between…
