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Bouchercon XXII
Bouchercon 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; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXII and the 6th Anthony Awards ceremony. Bouchercon The convention was held in Pasadena, California on October 11, 1991; running until the 13th. The event was chaired by Len & June Moffatt, founders and editors of the ''JDM Bibliophile'', a fanzine and journal dedicated the works of John D. MacDonald. Special Guests *Lifetime Achievement award — William Campbell Gault *Guest of Honor — Edward D. Hoch *Guest of Honor (visual media) — William Link *Fan Guest of Honor — Bruce Pelz *Toastmaster — Bill Crider Anthony Awards The following list details the awards distributed at the sixth annual Anthony Awards ceremony. Novel award Winner: * Sue Grafton, ''"G" Is for Gumshoe'' Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, California
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district. Its population was 138,699 at the 2020 census, making it the 44th largest city in California and the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming one of the first cities to be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, following the city of Los Angeles (April 4, 1850). Pasadena is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. It is also home to many scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, including Caltech, Pasadena City College, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Fuller Theological Seminary, ArtCenter College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Ambassador Auditorium, the Norton Simon Museum, and the USC Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
"G" Is For Gumshoe
''"G" Is for Gumshoe'' (1990) is the seventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In ''"G" Is for Gumshoe'', Kinsey Millhone meets fellow investigator Robert Dietz when someone hires a hit man to kill her. While Kinsey is being stalked, she uncovers an unsolved murder that haunts the lives of her client Mrs. Irene Gersh and Irene's "mother" who uses the alias "Agnes Grey" (the title of an Anne Brontë novel). In other developments in Kinsey's personal story, she loses her VW car, and her friend Vera Lipton becomes engaged. Plot summary Three things happen to Kinsey Millhone on her thirty-third birthday: she moves into her remodeled apartment, which has finally been finished; she is hired by Irene Gersh, a sickly Santa Teresa resident, to head out to the Slabs in the Mojave Desert and locate her mother; and she gets the news that Tyrone Patty, a particularly dangerous criminal s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Haddam
Orania Papazoglou (July 13, 1951 - July 17, 2019), better known by her pen name Jane Haddam, was an American mystery writer. Biography Haddam was born in Bethel, Connecticut and lived in Watertown. She was married to mystery writer William L. DeAndrea until his death in 1996. One of their two sons, Matt DeAndrea, is also a writer; the second is named Gregory DeAndrea. Writing Papazoglou worked as a teacher at the college level and as a magazine editor. She began her fiction writing career after attending the 1981 Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention, which she was covering as a journalist. After her article about the conference was rejected, Papazoglou sat down and began to write the first Patience McKenna novel, ''Sweet, Savage Death.'' She would eventually write five McKenna novels, under her real name, between 1984 and 1990. Between 1983 and 1988, Papazoglou wrote six romance novels. Four were published under the name Nicola Andrews for Jove's Second Chance at Love line, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grave Undertaking
A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries. Certain details of a grave, such as the state of the body found within it and any objects found with the body, may provide information for archaeologists about how the body may have lived before its death, including the time period in which it lived and the culture that it had been a part of. In some religions, it is believed that the body must be burned or cremated for the soul to survive; in others, the complete decomposition of the body is considered to be important for the rest of the soul (see bereavement). Description The formal use of a grave involves several steps with associated terminology. ;Grave cut The excavation that forms the grave.Ghamidi (2001)Customs and Behavioral Laws Excavations vary from a sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McCahery
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where's Mommy Now?
Where's Mommy Now? () is a book written by Rochelle Majer Krich and published by Pinnacle Books (now owned by Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New York-based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William"Walter Zacharius, Romance Publisher, Dies at 87,"''New York Times'' (MARCH 7, 2011). and Roberta Bender G ...) on 1 June 1990 which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1991. References Anthony Award-winning works American mystery novels 1990 American novels Pinnacle Books books 1990 debut novels {{1990s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochelle Krich
Rochelle Majer Krich (born 1947) is a writer of mystery novels and winner of an Anthony Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.page 136-138, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, Biography Krich was born in Bayreuth, Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1951, moving to Los Angeles in 1960. Her parents were survivors of the Holocaust who met after the war, her father's first wife and daughters having been murdered in the camps. She graduated in English from Stern College for Women and met her husband while studying for a master's at UCLA. She is married with six children and taught in an orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles for many years. Her first published novel ''Where's Mommy Now?'' won the Anthony Award for best paperback original and was adapted into film in 1995 as ''Perfect Alibi'', starring Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo, and Kathleen Quinlan. Her first series is set in Los Angeles and concerns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochelle Majer Krich
Rochelle Majer Krich (born 1947) is a writer of mystery novels and winner of an Anthony Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.page 136-138, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, Biography Krich was born in Bayreuth, Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1951, moving to Los Angeles in 1960. Her parents were survivors of the Holocaust who met after the war, her father's first wife and daughters having been murdered in the camps. She graduated in English from Stern College for Women and met her husband while studying for a master's at UCLA. She is married with six children and taught in an orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles for many years. Her first published novel ''Where's Mommy Now?'' won the Anthony Award for best paperback original and was adapted into film in 1995 as ''Perfect Alibi'', starring Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo, and Kathleen Quinlan. Her first series is set in Los Angeles and concern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Dawson (writer)
Janet Dawson (born October 31, 1949) is an American writer of mysteries. Thirteen of her novels comprise the Jeri Howard series, featuring a private eye of the same name, and three make up the California Zephyr series featuring private eye Jill McLeod. Dawson's work has included many short stories and a mystery novel, ''What You Wish For'', that is not part of either series. Dawson's ''Kindred Crimes'' was named a "best first private-eye novel" by St. Martin's Press and the Private Eye Writer's Association in 1990, and in 2004, her short story, "Voice Mail", won a Macavity Award. Dawson, a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder (B.S. in journalism), began her writing career as a reporter for the ''Daily News'' of Lamar, Colorado (1972–74). She served in the United States Navy (1975–83), where she rose to the rank of lieutenant. During these same years, she completed work for an M.A. in history at California State University, Hayward, graduating in 1983. From then t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Mott Davidson
Diane Mott Davidson (born ) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Her story, "Cold Turkey", won the 1993 Anthony Award for "Best Short-story". Biography Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly, ''The Cereal Murders''), she references a prestigious eastern women's college that her sleuth, Goldy Schulz, attended before transferring to the University of Colorado in Boulder. In real life, Mott Davidson transferred from Wellesley and eventually graduated from Stanford University. Career The main character in Mott Davidson's novels is Goldy Schulz, a small town caterer who also solves murder mysteries in her spare time. At the start of the series, Goldy is a recently divorced mother with a young son trying to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postmortem (novel)
''Postmortem'' is a crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and is her debut novel. The first book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series, it received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Plot summary The novel opens as Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, receives an early-morning call from Sergeant Pete Marino, a homicide detective at the Richmond Police Department with whom Scarpetta has a tense working relationship. She meets him at the scene of a woman's gruesome strangling, the latest in a string of unsolved murders in Richmond. The killer leaves behind a few clues; among them are a mysterious substance which fluoresces under laser light, which was later on proved to be from a liquid soap which the killer used to wash his hands, traces of semen, and in the vicinity of the last murder, an unusual smell. Scarpetta and Marino work with FBI profiler Benton Wesley to attempt to piece together a profile of the killer. Initial ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also initiated new research into the Jack the Ripper killings, incriminating the popular British artist Walter Sickert. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. Early life A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956 in Miami, Florida, second of three children, to Marilyn (née Zenner) and Sam Daniels. Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Cornwell later traced her own motivations in life to the em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
