Annal:1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1996. 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.
- 1996 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 10.46
Pete Earley’s The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation’s most notorious prison—the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas—a book that Kirkus Reviews called a “fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported.” Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice—and injustice—American-style.
In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter “Johnny D.”…
