Annal:2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Fact Crime
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2002. 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.
Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America
- 2002 Edgar-Fact Crime winner
- Score: 10.52
In 1998 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters, an Oedipal team of scam artists who left a trail of blood, lies, and larceny from coast to coast. The media couldn’t get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny.
But the most chilling story of all was never told—until now. Kent Walker, Sante’s elder son, reveals how he survived forty years of “the…
Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill?
- 2002 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.52
A groundbreaking exploration of the origins of violent behavior. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Andrew Cunnanen—these notorious killers shocked the world with horrifying stories of rampant murder and abuse. Neurologist Jonathan Pincus probed the lives of numerous serial killers and other violent criminals to find out what triggers the violent instinct. Working with psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, he investigated their family backgrounds and medical history, discovering that virtually all the murderers themselves suffered severe abuse as children, which permanently…
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud
- 2002 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.52
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood— writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud— will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world’s most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal the extent to which these individuals permeate our society.
Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world’s leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders— the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted…
Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West
- 2002 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.52
This gripping book brings alive a daring prison escape and a relentless twenty-four-year manhunt that pitted desperate inmates against their keepers, the citizenry of Canada against the American brand of justice, and one man against his pursuers and the demons of his past. It is 1910, the waning days of the Old West. The Pinkertons and the hard hand of federal law enforcement have corralled most of the region’s fabled outlaws. Into this world steps Frank Grigware, who at age twenty sets out to find gold in Idaho. Yet, he chooses his friends poorly, and is…
- 2002 Edgar-Fact Crime nominee
- Score: 6.52
The real-life murder that became known as “The Fugitive” case began before dawn on July 4, 1954, in a Cleveland suburb, when Marilyn Sheppard was viciously beaten to death in her bed. After an inadequate investigation, her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, was charged with the crime, and a chain of events was set in motion that has caused more speculation, more publicity, and more cultural myth than any other American murder.
James Neff is an award-winning investigative journalist who, over the past ten years, has assembled the most compete set of Sheppard records in…
