Annal:1991 Anthony Award for Best Critical Work
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Anthony Award for Best Critical Work
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors
- Criticism books
- Criticism authors.
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Synod of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction
Jon L. Breen, Martin H. Greenberg
- 1991 Anthony-Critical winner
- Score: 10.41
In this collection of original essays, several prominent writers and critics of the genre examine the interface of theology and detection. Edward D. Hoch discusses Roman Catholic sleuths; James Yaffe discusses Jews in detective fiction; Marvin Lachman discusses the use of religious cults as mystery story backgrounds; co-editor Breen writes of Protestant religious mysteries and on Mormonism in the mystery; and four authors of mysteries about religious detectives—William X. Kienzle, Ellis Peters, Harry Kemelman, and Sister Carol Anne O’Marie—respond to a series of questions about their work.
