Annal:2006 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
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Results of the Macavity Award in the year 2006. 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.
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…
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.…
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 6.56
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred—the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by “thrill-killers” Leopold and Loeb, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and the escapades of Al Capone in Chicago; the Henwood-VonPhul-Springer affair in Denver; the murders of Marian Williams and Blanche Lamont in the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San…
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 …
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 6.56
“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?”
In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up…
