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Macavity Awards
The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a group of literary awards presented annually to mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the " mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' (1939) is a collection of whimsical Light poetry, light poems by T. S. Eliot about Cat, feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 ...''. The award is given in four categories—best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. The Sue Feder Historical Mystery has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards. Best Mystery Novel The Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel was first awarded in 1987. To be eligible for the award, the mystery novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Best First Mystery (Novel) The Macavity Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Readers International
Mystery Readers International is a fan/reader organization open to all readers, fans, critics, editors, publishers, and writers of Mystery fiction. It was founded by Janet A. Rudolph in Berkeley, California. It publishes the ''Mystery Readers Journal'' quarterly. It presents the Macavity Awards annually in several categories, including: Best Mystery Novel, Best First Mystery Novel, Best Bio/Critical Mystery Work, Best Mystery Short Story. The Macavity is named for T.S. Eliot's "mystery cat", from his ''Old Possum's Book of Cats''.main page, mysteryreaders.org, official website of the Mystery Readers, International The first awards were issued in 1987. References External linksofficial web site Mystery fiction Literary fan clubs {{US-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Face Of A Stranger
Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer and murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. In 1994 it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted of murder in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954, when she was fifteen. She and her sixteen-year-old friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother, Honorah. After serving a five-year sentence for the murder, Perry had changed her name (formerly Juliet Hulme) and returned to the United Kingdom. She was identified by the media following the release of the film ''Heavenly Creatures'', directed by Peter Jackson, which is based on the case. Early life Born in London, the daughter of physicist Henry Rainsford Hulme, Hulme was diagnosed with tuberculosis as a child and sent to the Caribbean, South Africa, and New Zealand in hopes that a warmer climate would improve her health. She rejoined her family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Beetle's Cellar
''Under the Beetle's Cellar'', is a 1995 suspense novel by American author Mary Willis Walker, the second in her "Molly Cates" series. Title The title is a line from "Under the Light, yet under", a poem by Emily Dickinson which features towards the end of the novel. Plot introduction Set near Austin, Texas it tells of Samuel Mordecai, a fanatical self-proclaimed prophet who kidnaps a bus-load of schoolchildren and their driver, a Vietnam veteran. The captives are to be held underground for fifty days on starvation rations and without external contact as "earth purification" in preparation for the imminent end of the world. Surrounded by police and FBI, Mordecai's fortified compound is at the centre of world-wide media attention. Molly Cates is a journalist with the ''Lone Star Monthly'', who interviewed Mordecai two years previously and is the only person outside the cult to have had any contact with him. The book is set in the last four days of the siege and has two narrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996. Events *July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's '' Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community." *July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. * October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play '' The Vagina Monologues''. *''unknown dates'' **In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for '' A Spell of Winter''. ** Peter O'Donnell publishes '' Cobra Trap'', a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965. **Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, '' Lost Laysen'', is published, 80 years after it was written. ** Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ''Romance Writings'', inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing For The Ashes
Playing for the Ashes is a crime novel by Elizabeth George, published in 1993 by Bantam Books. It is the author's seventh crime novel featuring Inspector Lynley. It also exists as an audiobook, narrated by Donada Peters. Background The title ''Playing for the Ashes'' refers to a British cricketing term. Plot When a famous cricketing star, Kenneth Fleming, is found dead on the estate of his patron, Lynley and Havers investigate with the help of local Detective Inspector Isabelle Ardery. Fleming, who was just going through divorce proceedings at the time of his death, was about to set off on holiday to Greece with his son. He is discovered following a fire in the cottage in which he was staying, although the woman who was meant to be renting it is nowhere to be found. Lynley's investigation leads him to seek out Fleming's patron’s daughter, Olivia, who suffers from ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or—in the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Concrete Blonde
''The Concrete Blonde'' is the third novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was published in 1994. Background Connelly said that he obtained the seed idea for ''The Concrete Blonde'' by reading a book detailing actual cases, written for forensic professionals. Plot LAPD detective Harry Bosch is pursuing "The Dollmaker", a serial killer who applies makeup to his victims. After learning from a prostitute that a recent customer, Norman Church, possessed women's makeup in his bathroom, Bosch breaks into Church's residence and confronts him. Bosch fatally shoots Church when he starts to pull something from under his pillow, only to find that he was fetching his toupee. Bosch is cleared in the shooting by internal affairs, but because since he did not follow proper procedure he is transferred from the elite Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) back to the Hollywood table. The makeup is found to match those of ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Walks These Hills
''She Walks These Hills'' is a 1994 book written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by Charles Scribner's Sons, which later went on to win the Anthony Award The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Categori ... for Best Novel in 1995. References Anthony Award–winning works American mystery novels 1994 American novels {{1990s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995. Events *January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete '' Blasted'' at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage. *February 28 – '' The Diary of Bridget Jones'' column first appears in ''The Independent'' newspaper (London). *March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter. * April 23 – World Book Day is first celebrated. * July 16 – Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book: Douglas Hofstadter's '' Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought''. *August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing. * December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's '' Sense and Sensibility'' has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson. ''Uncertain dates'' *Simon & Schust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missing Joseph
Missing Joseph is a 1993 crime novel by Elizabeth George,the sixth featuring Inspector Lynley, first published by Bantam Books. Deborah and Simon St James take a winter break to Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ... to ease their troubled marriage. But when the local vicar dies of apparently accidental poisoning, following a meal with the local herbalist, Simon expresses doubts over the efficiency of the local investigation, and Inspector Lynley is called in to investigate. Plot In ''Missng Joseph'', Lynley's friend Simon Allcourt St. James and his wife Deborah are on holiday in the village of Winslough, hoping to find solace from the miscarriages that have put their marriage under severe stress. However, they arrive to find that the vicar, Robin Sage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994. Events *October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book ''How Late It Was, How Late'' as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial. One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstones, Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Nitrazepam, Mogadon" the following week. *November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the Absurdism, absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939 in literature, 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman. *December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Icelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Butterfly (novel)
White butterfly may refer to: ;Biology: * ''Pierinae'', a subfamily of butterflies commonly called the whites * '' Pieris'', a genus of Pierinae commonly called the whites or garden whites * ''Appias'', another genus of Pierinae sometimes called the whites * ''Pontia'', a third genus of Pierinae sometimes called the whites * ''Pieris rapae'', a species also called the small white or small cabbage white ;Culture: * ''White Butterfly'' (album), the second album from English rock band InMe * ''Safe in a Room/White Butterfly'', an EP from English rock band InMe * ''White Butterfly'' (novel), an "Easy Rawlins Easy is an adjective describing something that is not difficult to do. It may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Easy'' (film), a 2003 American romantic comedy film *''Easy!'', or ''Scialla!'', a 2011 Italian comedy f ..." detective mystery novel by Walter Mosley {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness is an American publishing company that produces two e-zines focused on bookselling, books, and book reviews: ''Shelf Awareness'' is aimed at general consumers, while ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' caters for industry professionals. History The company was co-founded by editor/journalist John Mutter (editor-in-chief) and Jenn Risko (publisher) in 2005 to produce a trade magazine for booksellers. In 2007, Shelf Awareness had 10,000 subscribers in the book industry subscribers. In partnership with ''Unshelved'', which was read by 35,000 librarians and others, the company started running a new service for publishers to communicate with their readers, via a searchable online database of "drop-in" titles (also known as crash or add-in titles). In 2011, Shelf Awareness launched a consumer book review version called ''Shelf Awareness for Readers''. The company hired Marilyn Dahl as the review editor and Jennifer Brown as the children's literature editor. In November of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |