Annal:2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
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- Biography books
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- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vol 1 and 2. The Complete Short Stories
Leslie S. Klinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2005 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2005 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2004 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 28.55
A cause for international celebration—the most important Sherlock Holmes publication in four decades.
This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould’s 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger’s…
Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2005 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 12.55
Latin America has a rich literary tradition that is receiving growing amounts of attention. The body of Latin American mystery writing is especially vast and diverse. Because it is part of Latin American popular culture, it also reflects many of the social and cultural concerns of that region. This reference provides an overview of mystery fiction of Latin America. While many of the authors profiled have received critical attention, others have been relatively neglected.
Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- Score: 6.55
The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer—it’s an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective’s moral code, and casts light upon the society’s attitudes towards drink.
This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre’s birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows…
The Life of Graham Greene: Volume 3. 1956-1991
- 2005 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- Score: 6.55
October 2, 2004, marks the centenary of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures: Graham Greene. In volume three, Norman Sherry brings this magisterial biography—twenty-seven years in the making—to a close. Following Greene, still an agent for the British government, from prerevolutionary Cuba and the Belgian Congo to adulterous interludes in Capri and Antibes, Sherry shows Greene at the height of his fame, in the company of other literary luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Noël Coward.
Through unparalleled…
