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Born in Germany to a German-American mother and a German father, [2] Penzler moved to The Bronx at age five after the death of his father. [2] Penzler graduated from the University of Michigan, [2] having studied English literature. [2] [3] He is the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection for which he won an Edgar Award in 1977. [3]
A whodunit follows the paradigm of the traditional detective story in the sense that it presents crime as a puzzle to be solved through a chain of questions that the detective poses. [2] In a whodunit, however, the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a ...
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association. [1] [2] Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list titled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. [3] [4] Many titles can be found in both lists. [3]
The first book in a culinary cozy mystery series, Arsenic and Adobo finds 0ur protagonist, Lila, moving back home from a horrible break-up. But when her ex-boyfriend, a food critic, drops dead ...
The annual Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards chosen by readers for readers, and this year over 6.2 million votes were cast by book lovers for their favorite page-turners of ...
Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944 [1]) is an American author of mystery and thriller novels. [2] ... Macavity Award for Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical Book:
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves the solving of a mystery or crime (usually murder).
In 2012, Winters published The Last Policeman, the first in a trilogy of detective novels set in a pre-apocalyptic United States; that book won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category Best Paperback Original; [4] was an Amazon Best Book of 2012; [5] and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery by Mystery ...