Annal:1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1993. 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.
Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town
- 1993 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 10.43
In 1933, a nightmare shook the quiet town of San Jose, California, when a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father’s department store. In the days that followed, the Harts, local and state police, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI scrambled to outwit the kidnappers, whose demands kept them at bay until they—and Brook Hart’s murder—were at last discovered.
Then the unthinkable: A band of vigilantes stormed the San Jose jail and hanged the two criminals in the town square as ten thousand watched. The next day the governor hailed the lynching as…
