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 XVIII and the 2nd Anthony Awards ceremony.

Bouchercon

The convention was held in

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on October 9, 1987; running for two days until the 11th. The event was chaired by authors Steven A. Stilwell and Becky A. Reineke.

Special Guests

*Guest of Honor — Lawrence Block *Fan Guest of Honor —

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(posthumously) *Toastmasters — Mary S. Craig & Max Allan Collins

Anthony Awards

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

Novel award

Winner: *

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, '' "C" is for Corpse'' Shortlist: * Lawrence Block, ''

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'' * John Lutz, ''Tropical Heat'' * Nancy Pickard, ''No Body'' * Jonathan Valin, ''Life's Work''

First novel award

Winner: * Bill Crider, ''

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'' Shortlist: *Joan Hess, ''Strangled Prose'' *

Faye Kellerman Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the " Peter Decker/ Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, ''The Quality of Mercy'', ''Moon Music'', and ''Straight into Darkness ...

, ''The Ritual Bath'' *Joseph Koenig, ''Floater'' *

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, ''Dead Air''

Paperback original award

Winner: * Robert Wright Campbell, '' The Junkyard Dog'' Shortlist: * Lilian Jackson Braun, ''

The Cat Who Saw Red ''The Cat Who Saw Red'' is a mystery novel by Lilian Jackson Braun, published as a Jove Books paperback original in 1986. It is the fourth story in '' The Cat Who...'' series featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and Siamese cat Koko, which it res ...

'' *

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 f ...

, ''Trial By Fury'' *Rob Kantner, ''The Back-Door Man'' * Warren Murphy, ''Trace: Too Old a Cat''

Short story award

Winner: *

, "The Parker Shotgun", from ''Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology'' Shortlist: *Wayne D. Dundee, "Body Count", from ''Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology'' *Clark Howard, "Scalplock", from '' Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' July 1986

References

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