Annal:1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1991 Edgar-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.41
Blue-blooded, scotch-ad-gorgeous Cameron Sheffield Noyes is the new enfant terrible of American letters. Writer of the wildly best selling first novel Bang, Noyes is the media’s latest darling and the current ringmaster of New York’s literary circus. Between photo shoots for Vanity Fair and interviews for The Paris Review, he’s having a blast trying to outdrink Dylan Thomas, outbrawl Ernest Hemingway, and outsnort the entire brat pack. There’s only one problem: with such a busy schedule, Cam simply can’t find the time to write his long-overdue…
Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry
- 1991 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.41
- 1991 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.41
Struggling to put a wounded deer out of its misery, intrepid rancher Shirley McClintock stumbles over a human skeleton half-buried in autumn leaves. Then she discovers a second murder, accomplished with the same arrow that had pierced the body of the deer. The crimes are apparently unrelated, but McClintock catches the same rotten stench in both. Only proof is lacking, but that, when she finds it, cannot be used. Not without putting the person nearest her heart into mortal danger.
Not a Creature Was Stirring: A Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mystery
- 1991 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.41
For former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, retirement has just come to an abrupt end. What started as a mysterious summons to a Christmas Eve feast at multimillionaire Robert Hannaford;s isolated country estate was now an invitation to a murder scene. Demerol and a blood-covered statue had ensured that.
Red ribbon, green wreaths, and spilled blue blood…christmas can be murder on the Philadelphia main line!
Add the late patriarch’s penchant for making enemies, seven siblings with ample reasons for wanting Daddy dead, plus a murderer with a genius for mayhem,…
The King's Gambit: Book 1 of the SPQR seies
- 1991 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.41
Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder—the glory that was Rome.
In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy. But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger—highborn commander of the local vigiles—was determined…
