{"id":371,"date":"2008-05-02T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/2008-edgar-award-winners\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T19:50:39","slug":"2008-edgar-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/02\/2008-edgar-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Edgar Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.shelf-awareness.com\/nview.jsp?nohead=1&amp;appid=411&amp;j=462854#2319967\" target=\"_blank\">from Shelf-Awareness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #3799b6; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px\" class=\"item_title\">Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prize<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.privatjokr.com\/images\/edgar.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"286\" width=\"138\" hspace=\"25\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Edgar Award\" \/>Winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysterywriters.org\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline\" title=\"Mystery Writers of America website\" target=\"_blank\">Mystery Writers of America<\/a>\u00a0and announced last night, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Novel:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Down River<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by John Hart (St. Martin&#8217;s Minotaur)<\/li>\n<li>Best First Novel by an American Author:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">In the Woods<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Tana French (Viking)<\/li>\n<li>Best Paperback Original:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Queenpin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Megan Abbott (S&amp;S)<\/li>\n<li>Best Fact Crime:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Vincent Bugliosi (Norton)<\/li>\n<li>Best Critical\/Biographical:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (Penguin Press)<\/li>\n<li>Best Short Story: &#8220;The Golden Gopher&#8221; in\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Los Angeles Noir<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)<\/li>\n<li>Best Juvenile:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">The Night Tourist<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)<\/li>\n<li>Best Young Adult:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Rat Life<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Tedd Arnold (Dial Books for Young Readers\/Penguin)<\/li>\n<li>Best Play:\u00a0<em>Panic<\/em>\u00a0by <a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Joseph Goodrich<\/a> (International Mystery Writers&#8217; Festival)<\/li>\n<li>Best TV Episode Teleplay: &#8220;Pilot&#8221; for Burn Notice, teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network\/Fox Television Studios)<\/li>\n<li>Best Motion Picture Screenplay:\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Michael Clayton<\/a><\/em>, screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)<\/li>\n<li>Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: &#8220;The Catch,&#8221; in\u00a0<em><a type=\"amzn\" category=\"books\">Still Waters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Shelf-Awareness Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prize Winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, sponsored by the\u00a0Mystery Writers of America\u00a0and announced last night, are: Best Novel:\u00a0Down River\u00a0by John Hart (St. Martin&#8217;s Minotaur) Best First Novel by an American Author:\u00a0In the Woods\u00a0by Tana French (Viking) Best Paperback Original:\u00a0Queenpin\u00a0by Megan Abbott (S&amp;S) Best Fact Crime:\u00a0Reclaiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}