Annal:2004 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense 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.…
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…
A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers
- 2004 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2003 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 12.54
This eagerly-awaited follow-up to the Agatha and Macavity Award finalist, A Taste of Murder, features more crime and nourishment from today’s foremost writers of crime fiction. With more than 130 recipes from an entirely new gang of mystery authors, A Second Helping of Murder lets fans enjoy the culinary cravings of such favorites as Elizabeth George, Dick Francis, Elizabeth Peters, Robert Barnard, Claudia Bishop, Alexander McCall Smith, Linda Barnes, George Pelecanos, and dozens more. Whether “meating out justice” or serving up “red herrings,” contributors have…
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…
