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Bouchercon XXXI
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 XXXI and the 15th Anthony Awards ceremony. Bouchercon The convention was held September 7–10, 2000, in Denver. The event was chaired by mystery author Rebecca Bates and Tom Schantz, owner of Rue Morgue Press, publishers of mystery fiction. Special Guests *Lifetime Achievement award — Jane Langton *Guest of Honor — Elmore Leonard *Fan Guest of Honor — Steve Stilwell *Toastmaster — Val McDermid Anthony Awards The following list details the awards distributed at the fifteenth annual Anthony Awards ceremony. The awards this year included celebrating those works which had had the biggest impact during the 20th century as a whole. Novel award Winner: * Peter Robinson, ''In a Dry Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rennie Airth
Rennie Airth (born 1935) is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy. Airth has also worked as foreign correspondent for the Reuters news service. Novels His works include ''Snatch!'' (1969), ''Once A Spy'' (1981), and a series of murder mysteries set in England between 1921 and 1949 featuring Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard (later retired). The first of these, '' River of Darkness'' (1999), won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for best international crime novel in 2000 and was nominated for Edgar Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ..., Anthony, and Macavity awards in the States. Airth found inspiration for that tale in a scrapbook about his uncle, a soldier killed in World War I. A sequel, '' The Blood-Dimmed Tide'', was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Chittenden
Meg is a feminine given name, often a short form of Megatron, Megan, Megumi (Japanese), etc. It may refer to: People * Meg (singer), a Japanese singer * Meg Cabot (born 1967), American author of romantic and paranormal fiction * Meg Burton Cahill (born 1954), American politician and former Arizona state senator * Meg Foster (born 1948), American actress * Meg Greenfield (1930-1999), American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist *Meg Frampton (born 1985), guitarist and back-up singer for the band Meg & Dia *Meg Hutchins (born 1982), Australian rules footballer * Meg Kelly, American television soap opera screenwriter * Meg Lanning (born 1992), Australian cricketer * Meg Lee Chin, Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the group Pigface * Meg LeFauve, American screenwriter (co-nominated for the Academy Award for ''Inside Out'') and producer * Meg Lees (born 1948), Australian politician * Meg Mallon (born 1963), American LPGA golfer * Meg Morr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Roe
Caroline Medora Sale Roe (born 1943; died November 7, 2021) was a Canadian novelist who wrote detective novels as Medora Sale and historical mystery novels as Caroline Roe. Caroline Medora Sale was born in Windsor, Ontario. She received a BA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Medieval Studies from the same university. Her PhD research involved religious diversity in the Medieval Era. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught at Branksome Hall and also worked in advertising and as a typist, translator, and caseworker. She married the medievalist Harry Roe in 1970; they had one daughter, Anne. Her books as Medora Sale are ''The Spider Bites'' (2010), ''Murder on the Run'' (1985), ''Murder in Focus'' (1989), ''Murder in a Good Cause'' (1990), ''Sleep of the Innocent'' (1991), ''Pursued by Shadows'' (1992), and ''A Short Cut to Santa Fe'' (1994). They are police procedural novels set around Toronto and featuring the characters of John Sanders, a homicide de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jose Latour
Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya * Jose the Galilean * Jose ben Halafta * Jose ben Jochanan * Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah *Jose ben Saul Given name Male * Jose (actor), Indian actor * Jose C. Abriol (1918–2003), Filipino priest * Jose Advincula (born 1952), Filipino Catholic Archbishop * Jose Agerre (1889–1962), Spanish writer * Jose Vasquez Aguilar (1900–1980), Filipino educator * Jose Rene Almendras (born 1960), Filipino businessman * Jose T. Almonte (born 1931), Filipino military personnel * Jose Roberto Antonio (born 1977), Filipino developer * Jose Aquino II (born 1956), Filipino politician * Jose Argumedo (born 1988), Mexican professional boxer * Jose Aristimuño, American political strategist * Jose Miguel Arroyo (born 1945), Philippine lawyer * Jose D. Aspiras ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Big Trouble
''In Big Trouble'' is a book written by Laura Lippman and published by Avon Books (owned by HarperCollins) in 1999, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2000. References Anthony Award-winning works American mystery novels 1999 American novels Avon (publisher) books {{1990s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels. Life and career Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a writer at the ''Baltimore Sun'', and Madeline Mabry Lippman, a retired school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the remainder of her ancestry is Scots-Irish. Lippman was raised Presbyterian. She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School ''It's Academic'' team. She also participated in several dramatic productions, including ''Finian's Rainbow'', '' The Lark'', and ''Barefoot in the Park''. She graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1977. Lippman is a former reporter for the now defunct ''San Antonio Light'' and ''The Baltimore Sun''. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Henry
April Henry (born April 14, 1959) is an American ''New York Times'' bestselling author of mysteries, thrillers, and young adult novels. Early life Born in Portland, Oregon, April 14, 1959, Henry grew up in the small southern Oregon city of Medford where her father, Hank Henry, was a KTVL television newscaster, and her mother, Nora Henry, was a florist. Career Author Roald Dahl helped April Henry take her first step as a writer. When Henry was twelve, she sent Dahl a short story about a frog who loved peanut butter. Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and read her the story. The editor contacted her and asked to publish her story. In 1999, Henry's first book, ''Circles of Confusion'', was published by HarperCollins. It was short-listed for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award. It was also chosen for the Booksense 76 list, and ''The Oregonian'' Book Club, and was a Mystery Guild Editor's Choice. Henry's first stand-alone thriller, ''Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Black (author)
Cara Black (born November 14, 1951) is a bestselling American mystery writer. She is best known for her ''Aimée Leduc'' mystery novels featuring a female Paris-based private investigator. Black is included in the ''Great Women Mystery Writers'' by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd edition. Her first novel ''Murder in the Marais'' was nominated for an Anthony Award for best first novel and the third novel in the series, ''Murder in the Sentier'', was Anthony-nominated for Best Novel. Biography Black was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 14, 1951. She was educated at Cañada College in California, Sophia University in Yotsuya, Tokyo in Japan, and finished her schooling at San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ... where she earned a bachelor's and mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder With Peacocks
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.") This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of ''malice'',This is "malice" in a technical legal sense, not the more usual English sense denoting an emotional state. See malice (law). brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. ''Involuntary'' manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Andrews (author)
Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, '' Murder with Peacocks'' (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999. The first novel in the Turing Hopper series (''You've Got Murder'', 2002) debuted a highly unusual sleuth—an Artificial Intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient—and won the Agatha Award for best mystery that year. Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series), studied English and drama at the University of Virginia,page 10, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia. Bibliography The Meg Langslow series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Five (novel)
''High Five'' is the fifth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. It was written in 1999. Plot summary The only Failure-to-Appear (F.T.A.) Vinnie has for Stephanie is so minor league (Briggs), that she focuses her attention on the mysterious disappearance of her Uncle Fred instead. Mabel gives Stephanie some photos she found in Fred's desk of half-opened garbage bags, containing dismembered human body parts. She insists the photos are recent, and very unusual for Fred. Stephanie sees enough to identify the body as a woman's, and gives duplicates of them to her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Detective Joe Morelli, who passes them on to the sergeant in charge of the case. Mabel tells Stephanie that Fred had been furiously pursuing RCG Waste Haulers to get his $2 back because they skipped picking up garbage at his house one time. RCG (Ruben, Grizolli, and Cotell) had refused to refund him, because his payment wasn't in the system - they demanded to see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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