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Edgar Awards -- are mysteries going "literary"?

11:24 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 |
Michael Merschel   E-mail   News tips

The Mystery Writers of America announced their Edgar Awards were announced over the weekend.

Over at the Los Angeles Times' "Jacket Copy" blog, Carolyn Kellogg thinks mysteries are getting, well, literate. She notes
"that Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, Man Booker Prize winner John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) and National Book Award nominee Susan Straight were all up for Edgars this year. That's Literature with a capital L."

Here's a list of winning books:

BEST NOVEL:
Down River by John Hart

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
In the Woods by Tana French

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Queenpin by Megan Abbott

BEST FACT CRIME
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F.Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley

BEST SHORT STORY
The Golden Gopher - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight

BEST JUVENILE
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold


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