Annal:2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Critical/Biographical Work
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2005 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 36.56
A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Now, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery:
Who created Nancy…
Writing & Selling Your Mystery Novel: How To Knock 'Em Dead With Style
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- Score: 12.56
How to write a page-turner is no mystery with this thorough and authoritative guide. Ephron takes the mystery out of the writing process, making it less daunting for beginners and more efficient for experienced writers.
Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed
Stuart M. Kaminsky, Laurie Roberts
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2005 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.56
Edgar award winner and past President of the Mystery Writers of America Stuart Kaminsky brings mystery fans into the living rooms, offices, and gardens of his talented friends and fellow writers in this tribute to the mystery genre. Professional photographer Laurie Roberts captures the writers, their families, homes, and pets while Kaminsky probes into their personal lives and writing to go “behind the mystery” to meet the writer. Many of the best are included: Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, Martin Cruz Smith, Robert B.…
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Vol 3. The Novels
Leslie S. Klinger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- 2005 Agatha–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 24.56
The publication of Leslie S. Klinger’s brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 short stories in 2004 created a Holmes sensation. Here, in this eagerly awaited third volume, Klinger reassembles Doyle’s four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 new notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find:
- A Study in Scarlet (1887)—a tale of murder and revenge that tells of Holmes and Dr. Watson’s first meeting;
- The Sign of Four …
Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- Score: 6.56
The Maltese Falcon has been widely lauded since its original publication in 1930. In its movie adaptation, it not only birthed American film noir but also ranks as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time, as selected by the American Film Institute. Now this treasury of memorabilia on Sam Spade and his creator, Dashiell Hammett, uncovers a wealth of documents and photos about the book and movie from institutional and private archives, many of which are previously unpublished and are available nowhere else. Providing far more information than any resource…
