Annal:1992 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Shamus Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Stolen Away: A Nathan Heller Novel
- 1992 Shamus-Novel winner
- Score: 10.42
In this brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Detective Nathan Heller tackles his most notorious case-the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby….
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Mystery
- 1992 Edgar–Novel winner
- 1992 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.42
In Matt Scudder’s mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder’s hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But this case is more depraved and more potentially devastating than anything he experienced while floundering in the urban depths. Because this investigation is leading Scudder on a frightening grand tour of New…
Where Echoes Live: A Sharon McCone Mystery
- 1992 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.42
Private eye Sharon McCone’s twelfth mystery now in paperback. Responding to a former colleague’s request for help, Sharon McCone travels to the high-desert town of Tufa Lake, California, to track down a commercial mining operation that could seriously damage the ecosystem…and a killer bent on even deadlier destruction.
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