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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 ...
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) [1] is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective.
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 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).
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:
Ms. Neely's death came less than two months before the April 30, 2020 banquet where she would have received her award. One year later, the Mystery Writers of America created a scholarship program in her name for Black crime fiction writers—one for an already published author, and another for someone getting started in publishing. [22] [23]