Annal:1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
- 1992 Anthony-True Crime winner
- 1992 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 20.42
Enter the workday of real policemen. Follow fifteen detectives, three sergeants, and a lieutenant, whose job it is to investigate Baltimore’s 234 murders. You will get a cop’s-eye-view of the bureaucracy, the highs of success, the moments of despair, and the non-stop rush of pursuits, anger, banter, and violence that make up a cop’s life. Now an acclaimed television series, this extraordinary book is the insider’s look at what you have always wondered about.
