Annal:2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2001. 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.
Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
- 2001 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 10.51
Two boys—John Connolly, and James “Whitey” Bulger—grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI’s Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them-a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston’s Italian Mafia in the process—would spiral out of control, leading to murders, and drug dealing, and racketeering indictments. And, ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.
Told in compelling…
Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous
- 2001 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.51
Don Foster is the world’s first literary detective. Realizing that everyone’s use of language is as distinctive as his or her DNA, Foster developed a revolutionary methodology for identifying the writer behind almost any anonymous document. Now, in this enthralling book, he explains his techniques and invites readers to sit by his side as he searches a mysterious text for the clues that whisper the author’s name.
Foster’s unique skills first came to light when a front-page New York Times article announced his discovery that a previously unattributed poem was…
Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial
- 2001 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.51
On Aug. 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten to death by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first. As William “Duff” Armstrong waited for his trial, his own father died. James Armstrong’s deathbed wish was that Duff’s mother, Hannah, engage the best lawyer possible to defend Duff. A friend, a young Abraham Lincoln, took the case and began one of the oddest journeys on his trek towards immortality.
Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals
- 2001 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.51
Inside the investigations of the deadly crimes that have shocked our nation—the Polly Klaas kidnapping, Susan Smith’s drownings of her own children, the Oklahoma City bombing—one woman is the investigative world’s secret weapon. You’ve seen her work: it was her composite sketch that revealed the face of the Unabomber, her hand that put a profile on Oklahoma City’s John Doe II, her “dead ringers” that led to resolutions of those and other cases. Now Jeanne Boylan, the gifted forensic artist, whose beauty and compassion make her one of the most fascinating…
The Seekers: A Bounty Hunter's Story
Joshua Armstrong, Anthony Bruno
- 2001 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.51
With an 85 percent capture rate-much higher than any of his fellow bounty hunters, the police, or the US Marshals Service-the Seekers have hunted down fugitives throughout the county, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Armstrong took up bounty hunting in the Pacific Northwest and realized that there was a need for a different kind of bounty hunter. The Seekers were born-as was a life of deadly adventure.
Combining hard-hitting action, gripping storytelling, and an inspiring personal story, The Seekers: A Bounty Hunter’s Story chronicles Joshua Armstrong’s quest for spiritual growth and enlightment while “seeking” America’s most wanted.
