Annal:2001 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
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Results of the Shamus Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Death in the Steel City: A Carroll Dorsey Mystery
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.51
Pittsburgh is a stew of ethnic divisions and, for some, a heritage of crime, punishment, and revenge. This is the legacy left to Carroll Dorsey, the son of a powerful political boss who is on his deathbed. Now a P.I. working the same streets where he once played as a boy, Dorsey is determined to look forward and not back as he makes a living in the city he’s always called home.
But nothing is as it seems when Dorsey is retained by an old gentlemanly Jewish gangster to search for the man’s long-lost lover. As Dorsey traces the life, times, and disappearance of…
The Blazing Tree: A Michael Merrick Mystery
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
In the first book in this gripping historical mystery series, Boston police reporter Michael Merrick investigates a series of fires—one of which led to murder—within a local Shaker community.
Bad to the Bone: A Casey Jones Mystery
- 2001 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.51
Don’t mess with North Carolina’s Casey Jones-smart-mouthed ex-con, unlicensed P.I. and reluctant partner to a Barry White wannabe. Casey’s big and bad, with attitude to match her altitude. Especially when she’s been double-crossed.
At first, Casey proves a sucker for the fragile blond who claims her estranged husband has disappeared with their child. But when Casey locates the fugitive spouse a little too easily, she begins to suspect that the lovely Tawny Bledsoe has played her for a fool. Especially when Casey gets stiffed on the fee, then finds herself…
The Sporting Club: A Trade Ellis Mystery
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
One man’s sport is another man’s murder….
Private eye Trade Ellis, part cowgirl, part Apache, has her hands full running her Arizona ranch. But when Victoria Carpenter, the famous romance writer, shows up with gruesome stories about repressed childhood memories, all going back over thirty years, Trade jumps at the chance to take the case.
Victoria’s flashbacks include her father’s so-called Sporting Club and its not-so-innocent picnics, where the wives talked, the children played…and the husbands made a brutal sport of hate and death. She’s convinced that…
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
The root of all evil…
How did Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton wind up working as a handyman in a world-famous brothel in Reno? Because the Feds made him a proposition: help smoke out a major money laundering operation secretly being run in Reno’s legendary legal cathouse, the Mustang Ranch.
After failing to reconcile with his ex, who is expecting their child, doing some simple snooping in a mansion full of gorgeous girls sounds like a good deal to Harry. But it’s a raw deal when one of the Mustang girls turns up savagely murdered and Harry is pegged as…
- 2001 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
The date is May 3, 1937. The legendary Hindenburg has just left Frankfurt on its final, fateful voyage across the Atlantic. And passenger Leslie Charteris has a terrible sense of foreboding…
The author of a world-famous mystery series featuring a benevolent sleuth called the Saint, Charteris was puzzled by the overzealous security at check-in—and disturbed to find the Hindenburg under Nazi control. But when an undercover Gestapo agent disappears the next day, it becomes clear to Charteris that his apprehension was not unwarranted. Asked to investigate,…
