Annal:2001 Anthony Award for Best Critical Work
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Anthony Award for Best Critical Work
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors
- Criticism books
- Criticism authors.
100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century
- 2001 Anthony-Critical winner
- 2000 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2001 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 26.51
The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association list of 100 favorite mysteries of the 20th century represents the accumulated wisdom of the most knowledgeable people in the business. These are the books we most enjoy, the books we present to our customers over and over again, and the books that we ourselves return to when we want to visit with cherished friends.
In this book, we journey through our list of 100, with essays contributed by bookselles across the United States and Canada. The book also features individual booksellers’ lists of titles that did not…
The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia
- 2001 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2000 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 12.51
Which poison was used most frequently in Agatha Christie’s novels? How many of her novels featured a butler? Exactly where on the train were the suspects located in Murder on the Orient Express? How many actors have portrayed Hercule Poirot?
Get a clue…or a lot of them, in The Complete Christie—simply the most comprehensive guide to the life and works of the immortal Dame Agatha Christie.
Join author Matthew Bunson, whose Encyclopedia Sherlockiana was compared to “a box of the best chocolates” by mystery author Anne Perry, in this…
Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists
Martha Hailey Dubose, Margaret C. Thomas
- 2001 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2001 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2000 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.51
In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women’s own…
- 2001 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2001 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2000 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 22.51
Penzler Pick, February 2001: More than 30 years ago, Marvin Lachman began writing a series of articles for a now defunct mystery fan magazine (fanzine, to the informed), The Mystery Reader’s Newsletter. The subject was regional mysteries, which previously had not been written about. When that pioneering newsletter folded, it was picked up by the greatest of all mystery fanzines, The Armchair Detective, under the impressive editorship of Allen J. Hubin. The series required 14 installments, running from February 1970 to October 1977. The…
Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines
- 2001 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 6.51
In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The “hard-boiled” stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940s.
Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers,…
