Bouchercon Bouchercon, the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, 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, and pronounced the way ...

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of creators and devotees of mystery and

detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as s ...

. 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 XXIII and the 7th Anthony Awards ceremony.

Bouchercon

The convention was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 8, 1992; running until the 10th. The event was chaired by Al Navis, owner of the Toronto-based mystery book-store, ''Handy Book Exchange''.

Special Guests

*Lifetime Achievement award —

Charlotte MacLeod Charlotte MacLeod (November 12, 1922 – January 14, 2005) was a Canadian-American mystery fiction writer. Life and work Charlotte Matilda MacLeod was born in 1922 in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, but emigrated to the United States in 1923 and b ...

*Guest of Honor — Margaret Millar *Toastmaster — Otto Penzler

Anthony Awards

The following list details the awards distributed at the seventh annual Anthony Awards ceremony.

Novel award

Winner: * Peter Lovesey, '' The Last Detective'' Shortlist: *

Susan Dunlap Susan Dunlap (born June 20, 1943) is an American writer of mystery novels and short stories. Her novels have mostly appeared in one of four series, each with its own sleuthing protagonist: Vejay Haskell, Jill Smith, Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, or Darc ...

, ''Rogue Wave'' *Linda Grant, ''Love Nor Money'' *

J. A. Jance Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery novels. She writes three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department Detective J. P. Beaumont, Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady, and for ...

, ''Hour of the Hunter'' * Nancy Pickard, ''I.O.U.'' *Marilyn Wallace, ''A Single Stone''

First novel award

Winner: *

Sue Henry Sue Henry (January 19, 1940 – Novevember 20, 2020) was an American writer of mystery thriller fiction. She was also a librarian, college administrator, instructor at the University of Alaska. Biography According to her obituary in the ''Anchora ...

, '' Murder on the Iditarod Trail'' Shortlist: *Mary Cahill, ''Carpool'' *Margaret Lucke, ''A Relative Stranger'' *Rebecca Rothenberg, ''The Bulrush Murders'' *Leslie Watts, ''The Chocolate Box'' *Gloria White, ''Murder on the Run''

Short story award

Winner: *

Liza Cody Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer. She is the author of 13 novels and many short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entir ...

, "Lucky Dip", from ''

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'' Shortlist: *Linda Grant, "Last Rites", from ''Sisters in Crime 4'' *

Wendy Hornsby Wendy Hornsby (born 1947) is an American writer of mystery fiction and a professor of history at Long Beach City College. Hornsby's published work began in 1987 and 1990 with two police procedurals set in Orange County, California, and featuring ...

, "Nine Sons", from ''Sisters in Crime 4'' * Margaret Maron, "Deborah's Judgment", from ''A Woman's Eye'' * Peter Lovesey, "The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown", from '' Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' May 1991 *Maxine O'Callaghan, "Wolf Winter", from ''Sisters in Crime 4''

Critical / Non-fiction award

Winner: * Maxim Jakubowski, ''

100 Great Detectives 100 Great Detectives () is a book written by Maxim Jakubowski. Its original title was ''100 Great Detectives or the Detective Directory'' and was published by Carroll & Graf Publishers on 1 January 1991. ''100 Great Detectives'' later went o ...

'' Shortlist: *Robert Adey, ''Locked Room Murders'' *Frankie Y. Bailey, ''Out of the Woodpile'' *Lesley Henderson, ''Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers'' 3rd ed * Tony Hillerman, ''Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman'' *M. J. McCauley, ''Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil''

True crime award

Winner: * David Simon, '' Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' Shortlist: * Vincent Bugliosi & Bruce Henderson, '' And the Sea Will Tell'' *Eileen Franklin & William Wright, ''Sins Of The father: The Landmark Franklin Case: a daughter, a memory, and a murder'' *Christopher Joyce & Eric Stover, ''Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell'' * Mark Lane, '' Plausible Denial'' * Joe McGinniss, ''Cruel Doubt''

Short story collection / anthology award

Winner: * Sara Paretsky, ''

'' Shortlist: * Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, ''Cat Crimes'' *Cathleen Jordan, ''Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide'' *

, ''Christmas Stalkings: Tales of Yuletide Murder'' *Eleanor Sullivan, ''Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' *Marilyn Wallace, ''Sisters in Crime 4''

References

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