The Edgar Awards in 2000


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Every year, the Mystery Writers of America award fiction and non-fiction books, TV programs, plays, short stories, and films in the crime, mystery, and suspense genres a heavily sought after honor: an Edgar Allan Poe Award.

The 2000 Edgar Awards will be presented on May 4 in New York. Nominations were announced in February. Check some of these out.

The 2000 Edgar Award nominees are:

Best Novel

River Of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Bones by Jan Burke
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Best First Novel by an American Author

Certifiably Insane by Arthur W. Bahr
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

Best Paperback Original

Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham
Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar
The Resurrectionist by Mark Graham
The Outcast by Jose Latour
In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

Best Fact Crime

The Ghosts of Hopewell by Jim Fisher
Mean Justice by Edward Hume
And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule
Disco Bloodbath by James St. James
Blind Eye by James B. Stewart

Best Critical/Biographical Work

Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by Rosemary Herbert (editor)
A Suitable Job for a Woman by Val McDermid
The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women by Catherine Ross Nickerson
Ross MacDonald by Tom Nolan
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower


Best Short Story

"Triangle" by Jeffrey Deaver (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March)
"Snow" by Stuart M. Kaminsky (First Cases: New and Classic Tales of Detection)
"Paleta Man" by Laurie R. King (Irreconcilable Differences)
"Crack: by James W. Hall (Murder and Obsession)
"Heroes" by Anne Perry (Murder and Obsession)

Best Juvenile

Howie Bowles, Secret Agentby Kate Banks
Shadow Horse by Alison Hart
The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Dolphin Luck by Hilary McKay
Green Thumb by Rob Thomas

Best Young Adult

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
That Kind of Money by Vicki Cameron
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde

Best Movie

Cookie's Fortune screenplay by Anne Rapp
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels screenplay by Guy Ritchie
Run, Lola, Run screenplay by Tom Tykwer
The Talented Mr. Ripley screenplay by Anthony Minghella
Titus screenplay by Julie Taymor and William Shakespeare

Best Television Episode

Law and Order: "Empire"
Law and Order: "Hate"
Law and Order: "Killerz"
Law and Order: "Merger"
Law and Order: "Refuge, Part 2"

Best Television Feature/Mini-Series

"A Slight Case of Murder" by Steven Schachter and William H. Macy

       

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