Earlier this week, the Mystery Writers of America announced their nominations for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (commonly referred to as "The Edgars"). While not quite a banner year for nominations as 2007 (there were seven Sherlock Holmes-related nominees), we're very happy to see Sherlock Holmes For Dummies
The press announcement began thusly:
Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
Below are a few categories of nominees. If you'd like to see the full list, please click here.
BEST NOVEL
- Caught
by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
- Faithful Place
by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
- The Queen of Patpong
by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
- The Lock Artist
by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)
- I’d Know You Anywhere
by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
- Rogue Island
by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
- The Poacher’s Son
by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
- The Serialist: A Novel
by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
- Galveston
by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
- Snow Angels
by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
- Long Time Coming
by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
- The News Where You Are
by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
- Expiration Date
by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
- Vienna Secrets
by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
- Ten Little Herrings
by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press)
BEST FACT CRIME
- Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
- by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
- The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
- Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
- Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his Assassin
by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
- The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
- The Wire: Truth Be Told
by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
- Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran (HarperCollins)
- Sherlock Holmes for Dummies
by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
- Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American History
by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
- Thrillers: 100 Must Reads
edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)
BEST JUVENILE
- Zora and Me
by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
- The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy
by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
- The Haunting of Charles Dickens
by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
- Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol
by Jim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
- The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
- The River
by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
- 7 Souls
by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
- The Interrogation of Gabriel James
by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
- Dust City
by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
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