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2023
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
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Martin Edwards
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HarperCollins - Collins Crime Club
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2023 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie |
Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal |
Bloomsbury - Bloomsbury Academic |
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2023 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations |
David Geherin |
McFarland |
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2023 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story |
Andrew Neiderman |
Simon & Schuster - Gallery Books |
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2023 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman |
Lucy Worsley |
Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime |
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2022 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World |
Mark Aldridge |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper360 |
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2022 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene |
Richard Greene |
W.W. Norton & Company |
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2022 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Tony Hillerman: A Life |
James McGrath Morris |
University of Oklahoma Press |
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2022 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science |
John Tresch |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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2022
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
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Edward White
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2021 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club |
Martin Edwards |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper360/Collins Crime Club |
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2021
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
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Christina Lane
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Chicago Review Press
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2021 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction |
Erin E. MacDonald |
McFarland |
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2021 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction |
Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff |
Syracuse University Press |
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2021 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing |
Jacqueline Winspear |
Soho Press |
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2020
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Hitchcock and the Censors
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John Billheimer
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University Press of Kentucky
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2020 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan |
Ursula Buchan |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
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2020 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club |
John Curran |
Collins Crime Club |
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2020 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview |
Anne McKendry |
McFarland |
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2020 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women |
Mo Moulton |
Hachette Book Group - Basic Books |
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2019 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterson: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction |
Laird R. Blackwell |
McFarland Publishing |
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2019 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession |
Alice Bolin |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow Paperbacks |
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2019
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
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Leslie S. Klinger
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Pegasus Books
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2019 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father? |
Yasuhiro Takeuchi |
Taylor & Francis - Routledge |
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2019 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life |
Laura Thompson |
Pegasus Books |
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2018 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon |
Mattias Bostrom |
Grove/Atlantic - The Mysterious Press |
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2018 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier |
Tatiana de Rosnay |
St. Martin's Press |
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2018 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall |
Curtis Evans |
McFarland Publishing |
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2018
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
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Lawrence P. Jackson
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2018 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes |
Michael Sims |
Bloomsbury USA |
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2017 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life |
Peter Ackroyd |
Penguin Random House - Nan A. Talese |
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2017 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Enclyclopedia of Nordic Crime: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden since 1957 |
Mitzi M. Brunsdale |
McFarland & Company |
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2017
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Ruth Franklin
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W.W. Norton - Liveright
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2017 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula |
David J. Skal |
W.W. Norton - Liveright |
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2016
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Golden Age of Murder
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Martin Edwards
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HarperCollins Publishers - HarperCollins
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2016 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue |
Frederick Forsyth |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2016 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Meanwhile There are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald |
Suzanne Mars & Tom Nolan |
Arcarde Publishing |
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2016 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica |
Matthew Parker |
Pegasus Books |
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2016 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett |
Nathan Ward |
Bloomsbury Publishing - Bloomsbury USA |
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2015 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis |
Charles Brownson |
McFarland & Company |
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2015 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction |
Jim Mancall |
McFarland & Company |
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2015 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir |
Robert MIklitsch |
University of Illinois Press |
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2015 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film |
Francis M. Nevins |
Perfect Crime Books |
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2015
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
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J.W. Ocker
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W.W. Norton - Countryman Press
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2014
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
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Erik Dussere
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Oxford University Press
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2014 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Ian Fleming |
Andrew Lycett |
St. Martin's Press |
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2014 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories |
Bill Alder |
McFarland & Co. |
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2014 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction |
Melissa Schaub |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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2014 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing |
Justin Gifford |
Temple University Press |
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2013
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
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James O'Brien
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Oxford University Press
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2013 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels |
Declan Burke, John Connolly |
Simon & Schuster - Aria Books/Emily Bestler Books |
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2013 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of and American Hero |
Otto Penzler |
Smart Pop |
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2013 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed |
John Paul Athanasourelis |
McFarland & Co. |
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2012
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling
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Michael Dirda
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Princeton University Press
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2012 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making |
John Curran |
HarperCollins |
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2012 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film |
Philippa Gates |
SUNY Press |
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2012 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie |
Walter Raubicheck, Walter Srebnick |
University of Illinois Press |
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2012 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time |
Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, John-Henri Holmberg |
St. Martin's Griffin |
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2011
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and this Rendezvous with American History
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Yunte Huang
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W.W. Norton & Co.
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2011 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making |
John Curran |
HarperCollins |
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2011 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies |
David A. Crowder, Steven Doyle |
Wiley Publishing |
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2011 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Wire: Truth Be Told |
Rafael Alvarez |
Grove Atlantic - Grove Press |
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2011 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads |
David Morrell, Hank Wagner |
Oceanview Publishing |
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2010
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Lineup: The Worlds Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
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Otto Penzler
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Little, Brown and Company
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Comment: Edited By Otto Penzler
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2010 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King |
Lisa Rogak |
Thomas Dunne Books |
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2010 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Talking About Detective Fiction |
P.D. James |
Random House/Alfred A. Knopf |
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2010 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion |
Bev Vincent |
Fall River Press |
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2010 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith |
Joan Schenkar |
St. Martin's Press |
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2009
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories
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Dr. Harry Lee Poe
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Sterling Publishing - Metro Books
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2009 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study |
Frankie Y. Bailey |
McFarland & Co. |
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2009 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories |
Leonard Cassuto |
Columbia University Press |
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2009 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction |
David Geherin |
McFarland & Co. |
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2009 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Rise of True Crime |
Jean Murley |
Greenwood Publishing - Praeger Publishers |
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2008
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
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Charles Foley, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower
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The Penguin Press
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2008 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational |
Maurizio Ascari |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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2008 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction |
Christiana Gregoriou |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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2008 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction |
Patrick Anderson |
Random House |
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2007
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
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E.J. Wagner
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John Wiley & Sons
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2007 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir |
John T. Irwin |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
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2006
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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Melanie Rehak
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Harcourt, Inc.
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2006 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed |
Stuart M. Kaminsky |
Hot House Press |
Comment: photos by Laurie Roberts |
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2006 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece |
Richard Layman |
Vince Emery Productions |
Comment: Including John Huston's Movie with Humphrey Bogart |
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2006 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels |
Leslie S. Klinger |
W.W. Norton & Co. |
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2006 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'em Dead with Style |
Hallie Ephron |
Writer's Digest Books |
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2005
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
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Leslie S. Klinger
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W.W. Norton & Co.
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2005 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel |
Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe |
McFarland & Co. |
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2005 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide |
Darrell B. Lockhart |
Greenwood Press |
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2005 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The Life of Graham Greene |
Norman Sherry |
Viking |
Volume: Vol. 3: 1956-1991 |
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2004
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
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Andrew Wilson
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Bloomsbury
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2004 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light |
Patrick McGilligan |
HarperCollins |
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2004 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium |
Elizabeth Peters, Kristen Whitbread |
Wm. Morrow |
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2004 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Mystery Women, Volume 3 |
Colleen Barnett |
Poisoned Pen Press |
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2004 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
The American Police Novel: A History |
Leroy Lad Panek |
McFarland |
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2003
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
|
Mike Ashley
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Carroll & Graf
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2003 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Art of Noir |
Eddie Muller |
Overlook Press |
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2003 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Classic Era of Crime Fiction |
Peter Haining |
Chicago Review Press |
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2003 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Crime Films |
Thomas Leitch |
Cambridge University Press |
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2002
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Best Critical/Biographical Work
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Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z
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Dawn B. Sova
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Checkmark Books
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2002 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers |
Jo Hammett |
Carroll & Graff/An Otto Penzler Book |
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2002 |
Best Critical/Biographical Work |
My Name's Friday |
Michael J. Hayde |
Cumberland House |
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