Annal:2004 Anthony Award for Best Critical Work
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2004. 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.
Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
- 2004 Anthony-Critical winner
- 2004 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.54
If you’ve been searching for a comprehensive readers’ advisory guide for mystery and detective fiction, look no further. With more than 2,500 titles and more than 200 authors, this book will provide you with an excellent overview and a thorough understanding of the genre, from topics of interest, a history of mystery fiction, and subgenres, to hints for advising readers, and a discussion of collection development and preservation techniques. Even with no prior knowledge about the genre, with this guide you will find it easy to answer questions raised by readers. And if you’re an avid reader of mystery and detective fiction, you will love this book as you explore titles and gain an even deeper insight into the genre. Books can be searched by author, title, character, subject, and location. An indispensable resource for librarians and mystery fans.
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction Volume III (1990-1999)
- 2004 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2004 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2004 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2003 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.54
“Mystery Women, Volume 3” is an encyclopedia of leading women characters in mystery fiction introduced during the years 1990-1999. It was preceded by “Mystery Women 1 (1860-1979)” and “Mystery Women 2 (1980-1989)”. In each of the three books, the protagonists are described as to appearance, education and career, family status, religious and political interests. There are short reviews of the books in which each appeared. The series was intended not only as a resource for mystery fans,librarians and booksellers, but as a reflection of the way in which women were portrayed in the mystery novel over a period of 150 years. Initially women were victims or villianesses. Success by early sleuths was often based on “intuition” rather than intelligence. Parallels are drawn between the fictional status of women and that which existed in the real world at that time. The impact of world and national events; i.e. World War I and II, the Depression, the Equal Employment!
Opportunity Act, the Civil Rights Movement, are noted. Plots in later narratives often focus on issues of particular…
The Story of Jane Doe: A Book about Rape
- 2004 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 6.54
Startling, incisive and surprisingly funny, this is the true story of a woman who challenged stereotypes, the justice system, the police—and won.
On an August night in 1986, Jane Doe became the fifth reported woman raped by a sexual serial predator dubbed the Balcony Rapist. Even though the police had full knowledge of the rapist’s modus operandi, they made a conscious decision not to issue a warning to women in her neighbourhood. Jane Doe quickly realized that women were being used by the police as bait. The rapist was captured as a result of a tip received after she and a group of women distributed 2,000 posters alerting the community. During the criminal proceedings, Jane Doe became the first raped woman in Ontario to secure her own legal representation—allowing her to sit in on the hearings instead of out in the hall where victim-witnesses are usually cloistered. As a result, Jane heard details of the police investigation normally withheld from women in her position, which revealed a shocking degree of police negligence and gender discrimination. When the rapist was convicted,…
- 2004 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 6.54
Interrogations by Jon Jordan is the first book from Mystery One Books publishing. It is a book of 25 author interviews with new questions, pictures and bibliographies.
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
- 2004 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2004 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2004 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2003 Whitbread-Biography shortlist
- Score: 28.54
The first and highly anticipated biography of the author of such classics of suspense as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her “peerlessly disturbing” writing. Yet even as her work—her thrillers, short stories, and the pseudonymous lesbian novel The Price of Salt—have found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.
For Beautiful Shadow, the first biography of Highsmith, journalist Andrew Wilson mined the vast archive of diaries, notebooks, and letters that Patricia Highsmith left behind, astonishing in their candor and detail. He interviewed her closest friends and colleagues as well as some of her many lovers. But Wilson also traces Highsmith’s literary roots in the work of Poe, noir, and existentialism, locating the influences that helped distinguish Highsmith’s writing so startlingly from more ordinary thrillers.
The result is both a serious critical biography and…
