Annal:1993 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Shamus Award in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Man Who Was Taller Than God: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
- 1993 Shamus-Novel winner
- Score: 10.43
Carl Wilcox really does try to stay out of trouble—he’s had enough of it over the years—but the times being what they are, the choice isn’t always his. For now, though, he’s taken a job painting signs for the town of Hope, South Dakota. It beats hanging around his folk’s hotel in Corden and gives him the chance to earn an honest dollar.
Then, late one July day, the McGillacuddy kid rides up on his bike and tells him that there’s a body in the sandpit outside of town. Nothing about the death was natural. Everyone knew Felton Edwards, but there didn’t seem to…
Lullaby Town: An Elvis Cole Novel
- 1993 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.43
Hollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It’s the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep—until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson’s wife in a small Conneticut town, she’s nothing like what he…
Special Delivery: A Case for Nick Polo
- 1993 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.43
When Nick Polo made his debut, Publishers Weekly hailed the streetwise, smart-mouthed investigator “a welcome addition to the roster of California private eyes.” Since that time, Polo and his creator, Jerry Kennealy, have proved themselves more than worthy of the considerable praise they have garnered along the way. Now making his seventh appearance, following Green With Envy, Polo leaves his San Francisco home base to do a favor for an old friend.
It sounds simple enough: Fly to London to hand deliver a letter, a check, and a cassette tape to a…
