Annal:2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2000. 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.
Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder
- 2000 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 10.5
Young, blond, handsome Dr. Swango seemed a godsend wherever he was hired to practice medicine. But acclaim would turn to disbelief, dismay, then horror, as the evidence mounted that he could actually be murdering his patients. Then, Dr. Michael Swango would leave that hospital—only to be rehired at another. Today the FBI believes that Swango may be the most prolific serial killer in American history.
In his brilliant, bestselling Den of Thieves, James Stewart exposed crime on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties. Now, in Blind Eye, he takes…
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
- 2000 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.5
From America’s most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful—but ultimately deadly—lover.
The author of fifteen New York Times national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former Seattle policewoman, has researched thousands of homicides and understands every facet of murder investigation. Now, in the most complex and shocking book of her long career, she delves into the motivation that…
Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
- 2000 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.5
When was the last time you read a story about murder and degradation that made you laugh out loud? When was the last time you read something that you just had to share with somebody and soon had you reading passages aloud? When was the last time you read something that was so startling that it made you think, “My God, not only am I not in Kansas anymore, I’m not even sure what planet I’m on!”
Well, welcome to the world of Disco Bloodbath, and the crazy, maddening, terrifying, bizarre, and totally charming people who inhabit it, doing all sorts of…
Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's Power, A Betrayal of Innocence
- 2000 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.5
Deep in the heartland of California lies a city on the cutting edge of the nation’s war on crime. Besieged by spectacular crimes in which pillars of the community were accused of murder, rape and the most vile conspiracies, Bakersfield found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy prosecutors. They descended on the courthouse like avenging angels, winning their cases, forging sweeping new laws and creating one of the toughest towns on crime in America—a model for the rest of the country.
There is only one problem: The people who were arrested, tried and…
The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case
- 2000 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.5
In this illustrated examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, Jim Fisher seeks to set the record straight regarding Bruno Hauptmann’s guilt in the crime of the century.. “In February 1935, following a sensational, six-week trial, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found German carpenter Hauptmann guilty of kidnapping and murdering the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.. “It was not until the mid-1970s that revisionists began to challenge the conventional wisdom in the case: that Hauptmann was the lone killer. Revisionist books and articles…
