Annal:2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Paperback Original
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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:
The Black Maria: A Mystery of Old Philadelphia
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.51
Captured at Gettysburg, imprisoned in Andersonville, Wilton McCleary lost his innocence in the Civil War. But on the streets of Philadelphia he’s found a home—as a grizzled city detective facing squalor and pathos every day on the beat. Now the whole world is celebrating a glorious future at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. But on the fringes of this massive exposition, McCleary wades into a drowning pool of murder, depravity, and deception that can only end with a dark ride on…THE BLACK MARIA.
While countries from around the world display…
- 2001 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.51
Though she’s out in disability with a bum knee, Washington, D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren has plenty of detective work to keep her busy.Her partner and former fiance, Dillon Upshur Kennedy, lovingly known as Duck, has gone missing, and everyone from shady criminals to fellow officers are on the streets looking for him.
Armed with a few seemingly unrelated clues, including a mysterious piggy bank and a dead body in her own apartment, the tenacious Liegh Ann sets off on an investigation that turns ever more dangerous the futher she probes. Following a deadly trail…
Murder on St. Mark's Place: A Gaslight Mystery
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death—and even murder…
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
Academic sleuth Ben Reese returns to Scotland, entangled in a case of murder among friends.
The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not. But Georgina had foreseen her death, and had laid down a secret trail of evidence pointing to a hard-hearted murder committed by someone with much to gain if she died—or to lose if she lived. Was it the brilliant sculptor Georgina had educated and supported? The beautiful student who is also her…
The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn: A Joe Barley Mystery
- 2001 Barry-Paperback winner
- 2001 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 22.51
Joe Barley, a part-time lecturer in English Literature and part-time security guard, is alerted by his maid to the disappearance of another of her employers, Rosie Dawn, a student of classics who is working her way through school by being an exotic dancer and the mistress of a fast-food entrepreneur. The novel also involves campus politics—a student tries to exploit the nervous administration over its minority policies.
