Bouchercon Bouchercon, the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher, and pronounced the w ...

is an annual convention of creators and devotees of

mystery Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange'' *Mystery, a seahorse that SpongeBob SquarePants adopts in the episode " My Pre ...

and

detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an criminal investigation, investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around ...

. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor

Anthony Boucher William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher (), was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dr ...

; also the inspiration for the

Anthony Awards 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 ...

, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XVIII and the 2nd Anthony Awards ceremony.

Bouchercon

The convention was held in

Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...

on October 9, 1987; running for two days until the 11th. The event was chaired by authors Steven A. Stilwell and Becky A. Reineke.

Special Guests

*Guest of Honor —

Lawrence Block Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Ma ...

*Fan Guest of Honor — John Nieminski (posthumously) *Toastmasters — Mary S. Craig &

Max Allan Collins Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic literature. His work has been published in several formats, such as his '' Ms. Tree'' series and his '' Road to Perdition'' series was the basis for a fi ...

Anthony Awards

The following list details the awards distributed at the second annual Anthony Awards ceremony.

Novel award

Winner: *

Sue Grafton Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ('' "A" Is for Alibi'', etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the ...

, '' "C" is for Corpse'' Shortlist: *

, ''

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes ''When the Sacred Ginmill Closes'' is a Matthew Scudder novel, written by Lawrence Block. Based on the short story "By the Dawn's Early Light", and published four years after ''Eight Million Ways to Die'', this novel resurrected Block's interes ...

'' *

John Lutz John Michael Lutz (born April 23, 1973) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing J. D. Lutz on the NBC sitcom ''30 Rock'', and for his work as a writer on the NBC series ''Saturday Night Live'' for seven ...

, ''Tropical Heat'' *

Nancy Pickard Nancy Pickard (born September 19, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also ...

, ''No Body'' *

Jonathan Valin Jonathan Valin (born November 23, 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American mystery author best known for the Harry Stoner detective series. He won the Shamus Award for best mystery novel of 1989. After writing eleven Harry Stoner novels over a 14 ...

, ''Life's Work''

First novel award

Winner: *

Bill Crider Bill Crider (July 28, 1941 – February 12, 2018) was an American author of crime fiction among other work. Biography Crider received a Master of Arts degree at the University of North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne ...

, '' Too Late to Die'' Shortlist: *Joan Hess, ''Strangled Prose'' *

Faye Kellerman Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the " Peter Decker/ Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, ''The Quality of Mercy'', ''Moon Music'', and ''Straight into Darknes ...

, ''The Ritual Bath'' *Joseph Koenig, ''Floater'' *

Mike Lupica Michael Lupica (; born May 11, 1952) is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the ''New York Daily News'' and his appearances on ESPN. Biography Lupica was born in Oneida, ...

, ''Dead Air''

Paperback original award

Winner: * Robert Wright Campbell, '' The Junkyard Dog'' Shortlist: *

Lilian Jackson Braun Lilian Jackson Braun (June 20, 1913June 4, 2011) was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of ''The Cat Who...'' mystery novels. ''The Cat Who'' books features newspaper journalist Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats, Koko (sh ...

, '' The Cat Who Saw Red'' * J.A. Jance, ''Trial By Fury'' *Rob Kantner, ''The Back-Door Man'' *

Warren Murphy Warren Burton Murphy (September 13, 1933 – September 4, 2015) was an American author, best known as the co-creator of '' The Destroyer'' series, the basis for the film '' Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins''. Early life Murphy was born in Je ...

, ''Trace: Too Old a Cat''

Short story award

Winner: *

, "The Parker Shotgun", from ''Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology'' Shortlist: *Wayne D. Dundee, "Body Count", from ''Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology'' *Clark Howard, "Scalplock", from ''

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fic ...

'' July 1986

References

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